How many baby Pacific jumping mouses are in a litter?
A Pacific jumping mouse (Zapus trinotatus) 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 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.34 kg (13.99 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Dipodidae family (genus: Zapus). An adult Pacific jumping mouse grows up to a size of 9.8 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 Pacific jumping mouse (Zapus trinotatus) is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is found in Canada and the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and swamps.
Other animals of the family Dipodidae
Pacific jumping mouse is a member of the Dipodidae, as are these animals:
- Greater Egyptian jerboa with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed jerboa weighting only 52 grams
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small five-toed jerboa with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Great jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Euphrates jerboa with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s jerboa with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pacific jumping mouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Caucasian snow vole
- Long-tailed vole
- Black-capped marmot
- Northern grass mouse
- Ural field mouse
- Kowari
- Gray marmot
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa
- Coyote
- Cape mole-rat
Animals with the same weight as a Pacific jumping mouse
What other animals weight around 27 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Brown antechinus weighting 29 grams
- California pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- Agile gracile opossum weighting 22 grams
- Lesser false vampire bat weighting 24 grams
- New Guinea free-tailed bat weighting 26 grams
- Woodland vole weighting 26 grams
- Zacatecan deer mouse weighting 27 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Blackish deer mouse weighting 32 grams
- Lesser mouse-eared bat weighting 23 grams
Animals with the same size as a Pacific jumping mouse
Also reaching around 9.8 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Olrog’s chaco mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gansu mole gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aztec mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied slender opossum gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican volcano mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)