How many baby Bailey’s pocket mouses are in a litter?
A Bailey’s pocket mouse (Chaetodipus baileyi) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Chaetodipus). An adult Bailey’s pocket mouse grows up to a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
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.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Bailey’s pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- San Quintin kangaroo rat weighting only 84 grams
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Giant kangaroo rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bailey’s pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Canyon mouse
- Capybara
- Swamp musk shrew
- Western chestnut mouse
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Desert hedgehog
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Slender squirrel
- Desert cottontail
- Nicobar shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Bailey’s pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse weighting 31 grams
- Wrinkle-faced bat weighting 23 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus weighting 25 grams
- Little red kaluta weighting 32 grams
- Yellow golden mole weighting 24 grams
- True’s vole weighting 22 grams
- North African gerbil weighting 27 grams
- Van Gelder’s bat weighting 22 grams
- Florida mouse weighting 30 grams
- Pearson’s chaco mouse weighting 25 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bailey’s pocket mouse
Also reaching around 9.4 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smith’s shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Meadow jumping mouse gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rümmler’s brush mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden spiny mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nelson’s pocket mouse gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)