How many baby Phillips’s kangaroo rats are in a litter?
A Phillips’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys phillipsii) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
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 Phillips’s kangaroo rat grows up to a size of 9.6 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.
Phillips’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys phillipsii) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts.The species is named after John Phillips, an official of a Mexican mining company who sent zoological specimens, including the type specimen of this kangaroo rat, to the British Museum.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Phillips’s kangaroo rat is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Pale kangaroo mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse weighting only 65 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- San Diego pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Panamint kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat raching a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals that share a litter size with Phillips’s kangaroo rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Big deer mouse
- Pronghorn
- Pygmy marmoset
- Little desert pocket mouse
- Long-tailed mouse
- Mexican harvest mouse
- Large Indian civet
- Pel’s flying squirrel
- Ruddy mongoose
- Tiger
Animals with the same weight as a Phillips’s kangaroo rat
What other animals weight around 41 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Wagner’s bonneted bat weighting 36 grams
- Northern grass mouse weighting 44 grams
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec weighting 45 grams
- Elegant water shrew weighting 38 grams
- Moss-forest rat weighting 45 grams
- Oecomys bicolor weighting 37 grams
- Macroscelides proboscideus weighting 38 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew weighting 42 grams
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum weighting 47 grams
- Grey red-backed vole weighting 36 grams
Animals with the same size as a Phillips’s kangaroo rat
Also reaching around 9.6 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern hopping mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pallas’s pika gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- African giant shrew gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied slender opossum gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan field mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)