It is hard to guess what a Mountain spiny pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys oresterus) on average weights 74 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Mountain spiny pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Heteromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Mountain spiny pocket mouses have 3 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 mountain spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys oresterus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Costa Rica. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain spiny pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 85 grams
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a weight of 38 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat with a weight of 106 grams
- San Diego pocket mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 68 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 73 grams
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat with a weight of 108 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain spiny pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Heteromys oresterus:
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Goliath shrew bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s pouched mouse bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Big-eared kangaroo rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Coast mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Mountain pocket gopher bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mountain spiny pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain spiny pocket mouse:
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Incan caenolestid with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hottentot golden mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-footed chipmunk with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain spiny pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Mountain spiny pocket mouse: