It is hard to guess what a Dark kangaroo mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dark kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops megacephalus) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Dark kangaroo mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Microdipodops). They can live for up to 5.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Dark kangaroo mouses have 3 babies per litter.
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 dark kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops megacephalus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Dark kangaroo mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a weight of 81 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 69 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- California pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Giant kangaroo rat with a weight of 114 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 65 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dark kangaroo mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microdipodops megacephalus:
- American water shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Myosorex varius bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Gray long-tongued bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Bicolored shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pleasant gerbil bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Rohu’s bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dark kangaroo mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dark kangaroo mouse:
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cuban flower bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Honey possum with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Flat-skulled shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Gansu shrew with a size of 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern harvest mouse with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Dark kangaroo mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Dark kangaroo mouse:
- Ash-grey mouse
- Hog badger
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- Père David’s mole
- Dusky hopping mouse
- White-tailed rat
- Greater cane rat
- Northern three-toed jerboa
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel
- Crab-eating fox
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Dark kangaroo mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Dark kangaroo mouse:
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Spectral bat with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Pyrenean desman with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Eastern mole with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Least chipmunk with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- House mouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Forest giant squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.08 years
- Cave nectar bat with an average maximal age of 5 years