It is hard to guess what a Bailey’s pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bailey’s pocket mouse (Chaetodipus baileyi) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Bailey’s pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Chaetodipus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Bailey’s pocket mouses have 3 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.
Bailey’s pocket mouse (Chaetodipus baileyi) is a species of rodent of the subfamily Perognathinae, family Heteromyidae. It is found in Baja California, Sinaloa and Sonora in Mexico and in California, Arizona and New Mexico in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Bailey’s pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Rock pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Desert pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a weight of 38 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 68 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bailey’s pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus baileyi:
- Graphiurus hueti bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Yellow-necked mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Barbary striped grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Great Basin pocket mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-faced bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Gray-tailed vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Golden mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bailey’s pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bailey’s pocket mouse:
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Robert’s hocicudo with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bailey’s pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Bailey’s pocket mouse: