How many baby Panamint kangaroo rats are in a litter?
A Panamint kangaroo rat (Dipodomys panamintinus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 15 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 27.5 cm (0′ 11″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Dipodomys). An adult Panamint kangaroo rat grows up to a size of 6 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 Panamint kangaroo rat (Dipodomys panamintinus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to the Mojave Desert in eastern California and western Nevada, in the United States.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Panamint kangaroo rat is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- San Diego pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Great Basin pocket mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Giant kangaroo rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Silky pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Great Basin pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse weighting only 85 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Panamint kangaroo rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Long-tailed mouse
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel
- Menzbier’s marmot
- Japanese house bat
- Jamaican coney
- Fraser’s musk shrew
- Burmese ferret-badger
Animals with the same weight as a Panamint kangaroo rat
What other animals weight around 37 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- San José Island kangaroo rat weighting 38 grams
- Saunder’s vlei rat weighting 34 grams
- Incan hocicudo weighting 34 grams
- Guatemalan vole weighting 42 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse weighting 41 grams
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat weighting 33 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat weighting 36 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat weighting 39 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat weighting 43 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat weighting 41 grams
Animals with the same size as a Panamint kangaroo rat
Also reaching around 6 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- True’s shrew mole gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern harvest mouse gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bates’s shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser bulldog bat gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Arizona shrew gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern ghost bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)