It is hard to guess what a Desert pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus) on average weights 15 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Desert pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Chaetodipus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). Usually, Desert pocket mouses have 2 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 desert pocket mouse (Chaetodipus penicillatus) is a North American species of heteromyid rodent found in the southwestern United States and Mexico. True to its common name, the medium-sized desert pocket mouse prefers sandy, sparsely vegetated desert environments.
Animals of the same family as a Desert pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 85 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- California pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a weight of 49 grams
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Arizona pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Giant kangaroo rat with a weight of 114 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat with a weight of 106 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus penicillatus:
- Parti-coloured bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Dark kangaroo mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Oldfield mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Hairy-footed dunnart bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Striped hairy-nosed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Eptesicus demissus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Chestnut short-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert pocket mouse:
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rufous trident bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat with a size of 4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Daubenton’s bat with a size of 4.4 cm (0′ 2″)
- Cursor grass mouse with a size of 3.7 cm (0′ 2″)
- Proboscis bat with a size of 4.2 cm (0′ 2″)
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Wagner’s mustached bat with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Mexican free-tailed bat with a size of 4.1 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Desert pocket mouse: