How many baby Dark kangaroo mouses are in a litter?
A Dark kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops megacephalus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Microdipodops). An adult Dark kangaroo mouse grows up to a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″).
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 dark kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops megacephalus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah in the United States.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Dark kangaroo mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Plains pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Little desert pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse weighting only 65 grams
- California kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pale kangaroo mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Little pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Dark kangaroo mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Raccoon
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
- Emin’s gerbil
- Woolly hare
- Eastern red bat
- Geoxus valdivianus
- Desert warthog
- Numbat
- San Diego pocket mouse
- Deroo’s mouse
Animals that get as old as a Dark kangaroo mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.42 years:
- Lesser mole-rat with 4.5 years
- California ground squirrel with 5 years
- Cuban solenodon with 6.5 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Xerus erythropus with 6 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with 4.83 years
- Bunny rat with 5.5 years
- Serotine bat with 6 years
- Little free-tailed bat with 5 years
- House mouse with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Dark kangaroo mouse
What other animals weight around 12 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Jamaican flower bat weighting 14 grams
- Mindanao shrew weighting 10 grams
- Dollman’s tree mouse weighting 12 grams
- Smoky white-toothed shrew weighting 14 grams
- Negros shrew weighting 11 grams
- Miller’s long-tongued bat weighting 13 grams
- Allen’s big-eared bat weighting 12 grams
- Merida small-eared shrew weighting 12 grams
- Little free-tailed bat weighting 10 grams
- Rufous horseshoe bat weighting 12 grams
Animals with the same size as a Dark kangaroo mouse
Also reaching around 7.2 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Greater forest shrew gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-winged bat gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s gerbil gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eurasian harvest mouse gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Temminck’s mouse gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Great Basin pocket mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)