It is hard to guess what a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) on average weights 125 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Banner-tailed kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). It is usually born with about 7 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.1 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Banner-tailed kangaroo rats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 banner-tailed kangaroo rat (Dipodomys spectabilis) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in arid environments in the southwestern United States and Mexico where it lives in a burrow by day and forages for seeds and plant matter by night.
Animals of the same family as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- San Diego pocket mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a weight of 78 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys spectabilis:
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s bushbaby bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Garden dormouse bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Indian gerbil bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Owl’s spiny rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Collared pika bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Banner-tailed kangaroo rat:
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- California chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Montane vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Desert woodrat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat:
- Marbled cat
- Large treeshrew
- California red tree mouse
- Crested agouti
- Manchurian hare
- Wolverine
- Chinese mole shrew
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Blanford’s fox
- North African elephant shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Banner-tailed kangaroo rat:
- Eurasian water shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Field vole with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Little red kaluta with an average maximal age of 3 years
- North African elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Acacia rat with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Golden mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Southwestern myotis with an average maximal age of 3.17 years