How many baby Nelson’s kangaroo rats are in a litter?
A Nelson’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys nelsoni) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 27.5 cm (0′ 11″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Dipodomys). An adult Nelson’s kangaroo rat grows up to a size of 12.7 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.
Nelson’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys nelsoni) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae which is endemic to the central plateau of Mexico.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Nelson’s kangaroo rat is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rock pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Plains pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Panamint kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse weighting only 65 grams
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Nelson’s kangaroo rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
- Least pipistrelle
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Jalapan pine vole
- Crested mona monkey
- Monk saki
- Speke’s pectinator
- Red-rumped agouti
- Puna mouse
- Eastern rock elephant shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Nelson’s kangaroo rat
What other animals weight around 87 grams (0.19 lbs)?
- Bare-backed rousette weighting 92 grams
- Highveld gerbil weighting 89 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette weighting 84 grams
- Oecomys roberti weighting 73 grams
- Big bonneted bat weighting 83 grams
- Kemp’s gerbil weighting 100 grams
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat weighting 84 grams
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse weighting 74 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew weighting 70 grams
- Cape gerbil weighting 92 grams
Animals with the same size as a Nelson’s kangaroo rat
Also reaching around 12.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common vole gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mozambique thicket rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Slender rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)