It is hard to guess what a Little pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little pocket mouse (Perognathus longimembris) on average weights 8 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Little pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Perognathus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 8.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Little pocket mouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 little pocket mouse (Perognathus longimembris) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in Baja California and Sonora in Mexico and in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah in the United States. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is a common species and faces no particular threats and the IUCN has listed it as being of “least concern”.Five mice of this species travelled to and orbited the Moon 75 times in an experiment on board the Apollo 17 command module in December 1972. Four of the mice survived the trip. Six other little pocket mice were sent into orbit with Skylab 3 in July 1973, though these animals died only 30 hours into the mission due to a power failure.
Animals of the same family as a Little pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Arizona pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 68 grams
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perognathus longimembris:
- Southern little yellow-eared bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Zacatecas shrew bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Arizona myotis bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Eurasian harvest mouse bringing 7 grams to the scale
- New Guinea long-eared bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Greater white-toothed shrew bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Moloney’s mimic bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Wood’s slit-faced bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Little bent-wing bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Little pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Little pocket mouse:
- Giant forest hog
- European hedgehog
- Andean vesper mouse
- Shrew gymnure
- Turkestan rat
- Desert pygmy mouse
- North African gerbil
- Beach vole
- Libyan jird
- Northern collared lemming
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Little pocket mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Little pocket mouse:
- American hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Plains viscacha with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Mongolian gazelle with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- European mole with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Common kusimanse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Northern bettong with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years