How big does a Great Basin pocket mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Great Basin pocket mouse (Perognathus parvus) reaches an average size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 4 years, they grow from 1 grams (0 lbs) to 21 grams (0.05 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Great Basin pocket mouses have 4 babies about 2 times per year. The Great Basin pocket mouse (genus: Perognathus) 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.
The Great Basin pocket mouse (Perognathus parvus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in British Columbia in Canada and the western United States.
Animals of the same family as a Great Basin pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- California pocket mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arizona pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Great Basin pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Great Basin pocket mouse:
- Bates’s shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cactus mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- São Paulo grass mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little native mouse with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Gray spiny mouse with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Great Basin pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Great Basin pocket mouse:
- Turkestan rat
- Nyika climbing mouse
- Culpeo
- Hoary marmot
- Red-tailed chipmunk
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil
- Visayan warty pig
- Northern birch mouse
- Shrew gymnure
- Nectomys squamipes
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Great Basin pocket mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Great Basin pocket mouse:
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Aders’s duiker with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Acacia rat with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Great Basin pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perognathus parvus:
- Big brown bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Stella wood mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Colombian forest mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Red fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest blossom bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Southern grasshopper mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale