How many baby Little desert pocket mouses are in a litter?
A Little desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus arenarius) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Chaetodipus). An adult Little desert pocket mouse grows up to a size of 6.8 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 little desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus arenarius) is a species of small rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Baja California in Mexico.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Little desert pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Lined pocket mouse weighting only 23 grams
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse raching a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- San Diego pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- San José Island kangaroo rat weighting only 38 grams
- California pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Big-eared kangaroo rat weighting only 78 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Little desert pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Round-tailed muskrat
- Layard’s palm squirrel
- Gray tree rat
- Maned wolf
- Crested porcupine
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Val’s gundi
- Gobi jerboa
Animals with the same weight as a Little desert pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 23 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Cozumel harvest mouse weighting 20 grams
- Serotine bat weighting 23 grams
- Northern bog lemming weighting 21 grams
- Akodon boliviensis weighting 27 grams
- Neacomys tenuipes weighting 19 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting 21 grams
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse weighting 20 grams
- Western shrew mouse weighting 21 grams
- Altiplano grass mouse weighting 20 grams
Animals with the same size as a Little desert pocket mouse
Also reaching around 6.8 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Underwood’s long-tongued bat gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Moss-forest blossom bat gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nubra pika gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew gets as big as 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crowned shrew gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)