It is hard to guess what a Giant kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Giant kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ingens) on average weights 114 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Giant kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.8 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Giant kangaroo rats have 4 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 giant kangaroo rat (Dipodomys ingens) is an endangered species of heteromyid rodent endemic to California.
Animals of the same family as a Giant kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 85 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 69 grams
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 65 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a weight of 38 grams
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 63 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 51 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Giant kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys ingens:
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Kowari bringing 109 grams to the scale
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Fraternal hill rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 118 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Indian palm squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Desert kangaroo rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Water vole (North America) bringing 92 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Giant kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Giant kangaroo rat:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s vole with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Arianus’s rat with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Angoni vlei rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Masked white-tailed rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Giant kangaroo rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Giant kangaroo rat: