How many baby Desert pocket mouses are in a litter?
A Desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 13 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Chaetodipus). An adult Desert pocket mouse grows up to a size of 3.9 cm (0′ 2″).
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 desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus) is a North American species of heteromyid rodent found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. True to its common name, the medium-sized desert pocket mouse prefers sandy, sparsely vegetated desert environments.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Desert pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Pale kangaroo mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse raching a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse weighting only 67 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Desert pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Golden mouse
- California kangaroo rat
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
- Deppe’s squirrel
- False water rat
- Brown hyena
- Red acouchi
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Giant white-tailed rat
- Marine otter
Animals with the same weight as a Desert pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 15 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Taiga shrew weighting 12 grams
- Flat-skulled shrew weighting 13 grams
- Semon’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 14 grams
- Allen’s big-eared bat weighting 12 grams
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat weighting 13 grams
- Elliot’s short-tailed shrew weighting 14 grams
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat weighting 16 grams
- Ruwenzori shrew weighting 18 grams
- Greater ghost bat weighting 12 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec weighting 12 grams
Animals with the same size as a Desert pocket mouse
Also reaching around 3.9 cm (0′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Grey long-eared bat gets as big as 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Lesser horseshoe bat gets as big as 3.8 cm (0′ 2″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Woermann’s bat gets as big as 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Proboscis bat gets as big as 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cursor grass mouse gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- White-winged serotine gets as big as 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat gets as big as 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rufous trident bat gets as big as 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)