How many baby Hispid pocket mouses are in a litter?
A Hispid pocket mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
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 Hispid pocket mouse grows up to a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″).
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 hispid pocket mouse (Chaetodipus hispidus) is a large pocket mouse native to the Great Plains region of North America. It is a member of the genus Chaetodipus.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Hispid pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sinaloan pocket mouse weighting only 17 grams
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat raching a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse weighting only 67 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Plains pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Big-eared kangaroo rat weighting only 78 grams
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hispid pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Dusky hopping mouse
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Holochilus brasiliensis
- Gray climbing mouse
- Black-backed jackal
- Severtzov’s jerboa
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Bunny rat
- Allen’s squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Hispid pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 35 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Little red kaluta weighting 32 grams
- Medje free-tailed bat weighting 42 grams
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse weighting 35 grams
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 28 grams
- Dusky fruit bat weighting 35 grams
- Abrothrix jelskii weighting 34 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse weighting 32 grams
- Spinifex hopping mouse weighting 32 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat weighting 28 grams
- Smith’s vole weighting 35 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hispid pocket mouse
Also reaching around 10.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Typical striped grass mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Creeping vole gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-tailed vole gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ash-grey mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Naked-rumped tomb bat gets as big as 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-toothed brush mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)