It is hard to guess what a Great Basin pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Great Basin pocket mouse (Perognathus xanthanotus) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Great Basin pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Perognathus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.1 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Great Basin pocket mouse (Perognathus parvus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in British Columbia in Canada and the western United States.
Animals of the same family as a Great Basin pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Lined pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Rock pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Desert pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Sinaloan pocket mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 65 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 51 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Great Basin pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perognathus xanthanotus:
- Sandstone false antechinus bringing 23 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Barbary striped grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys griseolus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s nectar bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Lined pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale