How many baby Giant kangaroo rats are in a litter?
A Giant kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ingens) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 27.5 cm (0′ 11″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Dipodomys). An adult Giant kangaroo rat grows up to a size of 14.8 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 giant kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ingens) is an endangered species of heteromyid rodent endemic to California.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Giant kangaroo rat is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pale kangaroo mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lined pocket mouse weighting only 23 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Little pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- California kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Giant kangaroo rat
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Brown four-eyed opossum
- Dhole
- Tarbagan marmot
- Indian hedgehog
- Long-tailed giant rat
- Pygmy gerbil
- Andean vesper mouse
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec
- Eastern cottontail
Animals with the same weight as a Giant kangaroo rat
What other animals weight around 114 grams (0.25 lbs)?
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Coruro weighting 101 grams
- Tsing-ling pika weighting 105 grams
- Masked flying fox weighting 130 grams
- Savanna gerbil weighting 121 grams
- Himalayan field rat weighting 100 grams
- Western dwarf squirrel weighting 120 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel weighting 135 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 119 grams
- Kimberley rock rat weighting 95 grams
Animals with the same size as a Giant kangaroo rat
Also reaching around 14.8 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Northern red-sided opossum gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tarabundí vole gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Singing vole gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)