It is hard to guess what a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys gaumeri) on average weights 63 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Heteromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.6 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Gaumer’s spiny 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.
Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys gaumeri) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It ranges over northern Belize and Guatemala and the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, where it lives in lowland semideciduous forest and thorn scrub. The species is nocturnal and terrestrial; it is solitary and strongly territorial. It is named after physician and biologist George F. Gaumer, who lived in the Yucatán from 1885 to 1929.
Animals of the same family as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a weight of 49 grams
- San Diego pocket mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Lined pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Agile kangaroo rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 69 grams
- California pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Heteromys gaumeri:
- California chipmunk bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s rousette bringing 74 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Arianus’s rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Cliff chipmunk bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Marsh rice rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Himalayan mole bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse:
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coruro with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coast mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse: