How many baby Chisel-toothed kangaroo rats are in a litter?
A Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys microps) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 27.5 cm (0′ 11″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Dipodomys). An adult Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat grows up to a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The chisel-toothed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys microps) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.There are 13 sub-species. Saltbush leaves are a major dietary component, requiring specialized physiology to eliminate the salt while retaining water.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Giant kangaroo rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Texas kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rock pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Highveld gerbil
- Red panda
- Eastern chestnut mouse
- Buettikofer’s shrew
- Cameroon clawless otter
- Giant golden mole
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse
- Common mole-rat
- Jungle cat
- Northern yellow bat
Animals with the same weight as a Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
What other animals weight around 56 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat weighting 67 grams
- Arrow flying squirrel weighting 49 grams
- Ammodile weighting 50 grams
- Star-nosed mole weighting 48 grams
- Alston’s cotton rat weighting 55 grams
- Western rock elephant shrew weighting 65 grams
- Euryoryzomys lamia weighting 60 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum weighting 61 grams
- Puebla deer mouse weighting 59 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel weighting 45 grams
Animals with the same size as a Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
Also reaching around 11.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Rudd’s mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-collared chipmunk gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan field mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan water shrew gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red tree vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- European mole gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)