It is hard to guess what a Gulf Coast kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gulf Coast kangaroo rat (Dipodomys compactus) on average weights 49 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Gulf Coast kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.8 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Gulf Coast kangaroo rats have 1 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 Gulf Coast kangaroo rat (Dipodomys compactus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae found in Mexico and the state of Texas in the United States. Its appearance and ecology are very similar to those of its putative sister species, Ord’s kangaroo rat.
Animals of the same family as a Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 87 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a weight of 78 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- California pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys compactus:
- Hairy-tailed mole bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori thicket rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Guajira mouse opossum bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- El Carrizo deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Eastern tube-nosed bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Pale-faced bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Peruvian fish-eating rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian gerbil bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gulf Coast kangaroo rat:
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cerradomys subflavus with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Amazon weasel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Gulf Coast kangaroo rat: