How many baby San Diego pocket mouses are in a litter?
A San Diego pocket mouse (Chaetodipus fallax) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 13 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Chaetodipus). An adult San Diego pocket mouse grows up to a size of 8.3 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 San Diego pocket mouse (Chaetodipus fallax) is a rodent species in the family Heteromyidae. It occupies the southern region of Baja California near San Diego extending into Mexico.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
San Diego pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse weighting only 85 grams
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- San Quintin kangaroo rat weighting only 84 grams
- Giant kangaroo rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Great Basin pocket mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Plains pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with San Diego pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Yucatan squirrel
- Tasmanian pygmy possum
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa
- Short-tailed mongoose
- Slender harvest mouse
- Lesser mole-rat
- Swamp musk shrew
- Southern flying squirrel
- Chiriqui brown mouse
- Mountain hare
Animals that get as old as a San Diego pocket mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8.25 years:
- Dice’s cottontail with 9 years
- Marbled polecat with 8.92 years
- Pichi with 9 years
- Mexican mouse opossum with 7 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with 8.58 years
- Florida mouse with 7.33 years
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with 8 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 8 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 8 years
- Edible dormouse with 9 years
Animals with the same weight as a San Diego pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 19 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Southern red-backed vole weighting 19 grams
- Greater forest shrew weighting 16 grams
- Tonatia carrikeri weighting 22 grams
- Brown tent-making bat weighting 17 grams
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse weighting 20 grams
- Little yellow-shouldered bat weighting 20 grams
- Blackish grass mouse weighting 19 grams
- Fat-tailed dunnart weighting 16 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat weighting 22 grams
- Percival’s spiny mouse weighting 22 grams
Animals with the same size as a San Diego pocket mouse
Also reaching around 8.3 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-winged bat gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cyclops roundleaf bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican shrew gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese dormouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chestnut dunnart gets as big as 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Altiplano grass mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed pygmy possum gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)