It is hard to guess what a Big-eared kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Big-eared kangaroo rat (Dipodomys elephantinus) on average weights 78 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Big-eared kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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 big-eared kangaroo rat (Dipodomys elephantinus) is a kangaroo rat that lives in chaparral. It is named for and distinguished by its comparatively large ears.
Animals of the same family as a Big-eared kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 268 grams
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Desert pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Sinaloan pocket mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 67 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys elephantinus:
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Bare-backed rousette bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Gray flying fox bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Andean swamp rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- San Quintin kangaroo rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Big-eared kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Big-eared kangaroo rat:
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed mouse with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)