It is hard to guess what a Desert kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert kangaroo rat (Dipodomys deserti) on average weights 108 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Desert kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.8 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Desert kangaroo rats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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 desert kangaroo rat (Dipodomys deserti) is a rodent species in the family Heteromyidae that is found in desert areas of southwestern North America. It is one of the large kangaroo rats, with a total length greater than 12 inches (30 cm) and a mass greater than 3.2oz (91g).
Animals of the same family as a Desert kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 85 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Little desert pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Rock pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 67 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys deserti:
- Congo rope squirrel bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Collared pika bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Common rufous-nosed rat bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Damaraland mole-rat bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Northern three-toed jerboa bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian rock rat bringing 123 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert kangaroo rat:
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smoky mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert kangaroo rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Desert kangaroo rat: