How many baby Long-tailed pocket mouses are in a litter?
A Long-tailed pocket mouse (Chaetodipus formosus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 14 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 Long-tailed pocket mouse grows up to a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″).
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 long-tailed pocket mouse (Chaetodipus formosus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.It is found in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah in the United States and Baja California in Mexico.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Long-tailed pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Giant kangaroo rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Desert kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Fresno kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-tailed pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Asian garden dormouse
- Small vesper mouse
- Alpine shrew
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Spectacled dormouse
- Rufous mouse opossum
- Pale field rat
- Gansu shrew
- Meadow jumping mouse
- Corsac fox
Animals that get as old as a Long-tailed pocket mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.5 years:
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with 2 years
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with 2 years
- Red hocicudo with 2.58 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with 2.83 years
- Lutrine opossum with 3 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with 3 years
- Golden mouse with 2.5 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with 2.33 years
- Cape mole-rat with 3 years
- Feather-tailed possum with 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 20 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting 24 grams
- Lined pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- California pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- Taphozous philippinensis weighting 20 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec weighting 18 grams
- Red tree vole weighting 22 grams
- Sandstone false antechinus weighting 23 grams
- Meadow jumping mouse weighting 18 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew weighting 20 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse weighting 20 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed pocket mouse
Also reaching around 9.7 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Golden mouse gets as big as 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland thicket rat gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- California red tree mouse gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Great fruit-eating bat gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)