How many baby Gulf Coast kangaroo rats are in a litter?
A Gulf Coast kangaroo rat (Dipodomys compactus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 59 grams (0.13 lbs) and measure 27.5 cm (0′ 11″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Dipodomys). An adult Gulf Coast kangaroo rat grows up to a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Gulf Coast kangaroo rat (Dipodomys compactus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae found in Mexico and the state of Texas in the United States. Its appearance and ecology are very similar to those of its putative sister species, Ord’s kangaroo rat.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Gulf Coast kangaroo rat is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Great Basin pocket mouse weighting only 24 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Big-eared kangaroo rat weighting only 78 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- California pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse raching a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Alpaca
- Lechwe
- Galápagos fur seal
- Cyclops roundleaf bat
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Baikal seal
- Large flying fox
- Cave nectar bat
- Dian’s tarsier
- Northern fur seal
Animals with the same weight as a Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
What other animals weight around 49 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Common rock rat weighting 40 grams
- Northern grass mouse weighting 44 grams
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse weighting 55 grams
- Oecomys concolor weighting 54 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 45 grams
- El Carrizo deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus weighting 49 grams
- Zempoaltepec weighting 58 grams
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat weighting 42 grams
- Great roundleaf bat weighting 50 grams
Animals with the same size as a Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
Also reaching around 16.8 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sugar glider gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Camas pocket gopher gets as big as 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Edible dormouse gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-tailed antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chiapan deer mouse gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)