It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed pocket mouse (Chaetodipus formosus) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Long-tailed pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Chaetodipus). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 2.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.7 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Long-tailed pocket mouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 long-tailed pocket mouse (Chaetodipus formosus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae.It is found in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah in the United States and Baja California in Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Agile kangaroo rat with a weight of 60 grams
- Plains pocket mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- California pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Lined pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a weight of 56 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus formosus:
- Savi’s pine vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Therese’s shrew bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Wood sprite gracile opossum bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Savanna swamp shrew bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Krebs’s fat mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Egyptian free-tailed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Incan caenolestid bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Luzon fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-tailed pocket mouse:
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little collared fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-tailed vole with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-tailed pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Long-tailed pocket mouse:
- Coyote
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Woolley’s false antechinus
- Olive grass mouse
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse
- Western jumping mouse
- Dusky slender opossum
- Northern red-backed vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Long-tailed pocket mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Long-tailed pocket mouse:
- Lutrine opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Slender-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Delany’s mouse with an average maximal age of 2 years