It is hard to guess what a Little desert pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus arenarius) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Little desert pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Chaetodipus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.8 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Little desert pocket mouses have 2 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The little desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus arenarius) is a species of small rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Baja California in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Little desert pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a weight of 38 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Desert pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Lined pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 67 grams
- Arizona pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same weight as a Little desert pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus arenarius:
- Kangaroo Island dunnart bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Least forest mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Akodon albiventer bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Asian particolored bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Mauritian tomb bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Woodland vole bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Little desert pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Little desert pocket mouse:
- American water shrew with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Paratriaenops furculus with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saharan shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common noctule with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hoary bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Trowbridge’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Little desert pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Little desert pocket mouse: