How many baby Banner-tailed kangaroo rats are in a litter?
A Banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Dipodomys). An adult Banner-tailed kangaroo rat grows up to a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″).
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 banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in arid environments in the southwestern United States and Mexico where it lives in a burrow by day and forages for seeds and plant matter by night.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Banner-tailed kangaroo rat is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse weighting only 85 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Silky pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dark kangaroo mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pale kangaroo mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Fresno kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
- African clawless otter
- Gobi jerboa
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Southern yellow bat
- Tasmanian devil
- Lusitanian pine vole
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
- Siberian roe deer
- White-sided jackrabbit
Animals that get as old as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Star-nosed mole with 3 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with 3.33 years
- Sminthopsis laniger with 3.25 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with 3.17 years
- Eastern woodrat with 3 years
- Eurasian water shrew with 3 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 2.58 years
- New Guinean quoll with 3 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with 3.17 years
- Smith’s vole with 3.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
What other animals weight around 125 grams (0.28 lbs)?
- Isarog shrew-rat weighting 122 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew weighting 112 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat weighting 122 grams
- Tsing-ling pika weighting 105 grams
- Unexpected cotton rat weighting 140 grams
- Pale leaf-eared mouse weighting 102 grams
- Indian palm squirrel weighting 136 grams
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat weighting 100 grams
Animals with the same size as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
Also reaching around 14.1 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Smoky mouse gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sado mole gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Roman mole gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Marsh rice rat gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gaoligong pika gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pseudoryzomys gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Somali hedgehog gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)