It is hard to guess what a Arizona pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arizona pocket mouse (Perognathus amplus) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Arizona pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Perognathus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Arizona pocket mouse (Perognathus amplus) is a rodent native to the Sonoran desert. It is a small mouse with a thinly furred tail that is smooth from base to tip (i.e. it has no tuft). In color it ranges from tan to orange. It is a nocturnal, burrowing animal. It eats seeds, which it carries back to its burrow in its cheek pouches.
Animals of the same family as a Arizona pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Desert kangaroo rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Rock pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Giant kangaroo rat with a weight of 114 grams
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Plains pocket mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Desert pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Arizona pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perognathus amplus:
- California leaf-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Tropical big-eared brown bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Kellen’s dormouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Common bent-wing bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Silver-haired bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Salt marsh harvest mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pleasant gerbil bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Seminole bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest roundleaf bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Papillose woolly bat bringing 10 grams to the scale