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Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse size: How big do they get?

How big does a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:

A grown Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys gaumeri) reaches an average size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″).

When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 63 grams (0.14 lbs). A Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse has 2 babies at once. The Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse (genus: Heteromys) is a member of the family Heteromyidae.

As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.

Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys gaumeri) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It ranges over northern Belize and Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where it lives in lowland semideciduous forest and thorn scrub. The species is nocturnal and terrestrial; it is solitary and strongly territorial. It is named after physician and biologist George F. Gaumer, who lived in the Yucatán from 1885 to 1929.

Animals of the same family as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse

We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:

Animals with the same size as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse

Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse:

Animals with the same litter size as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse

Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse:

Animals with the same weight as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Heteromys gaumeri: