How many baby Pale kangaroo mouses are in a litter?
A Pale kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops pallidus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Microdipodops). An adult Pale kangaroo mouse grows up to a size of 7.5 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 pale kangaroo mouse or Soda Spring Valley kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops pallidus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to California and Nevada in the United States.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Pale kangaroo mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- San Diego pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse weighting only 85 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sinaloan pocket mouse weighting only 17 grams
- Plains pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Spiny pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pale kangaroo mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Jackson’s shrew
- Egyptian mongoose
- Juniper vole
- Bunny rat
- Ungava collared lemming
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Monito del monte
Animals with the same weight as a Pale kangaroo mouse
What other animals weight around 13 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart weighting 11 grams
- Lesser ghost bat weighting 13 grams
- Big naked-backed bat weighting 13 grams
- Microryzomys altissimus weighting 13 grams
- Spotted free-tailed bat weighting 15 grams
- Greater ghost bat weighting 12 grams
- Bogotá grass mouse weighting 13 grams
- Coastal sheath-tailed bat weighting 12 grams
- Greater long-fingered bat weighting 14 grams
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat weighting 11 grams
Animals with the same size as a Pale kangaroo mouse
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Long-tailed musk shrew gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lined pocket mouse gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- American water shrew gets as big as 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Vagrant shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser ranee mouse gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)