It is hard to guess what a Olive-backed pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Olive-backed pocket mouse (Perognathus fasciatus) on average weights 11 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Olive-backed pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Perognathus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Olive-backed 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 olive-backed pocket mouse (Perognathus fasciatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in the central Great Plains of Canada and the United States where it is widespread and relatively common; the IUCN considers it to be of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Olive-backed pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 51 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Plains pocket mouse with a weight of 9 grams
- San Diego pocket mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 74 grams
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a weight of 56 grams
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a weight of 49 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Olive-backed pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perognathus fasciatus:
- Talamancan yellow-shouldered bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Dwarf little fruit bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Orinoco sword-nosed bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Hairy big-eared bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Micronycteris brachyotis bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Orange nectar bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Large rufous horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Little Indian field mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Olive-backed pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Olive-backed pocket mouse:
- Tailed tailless bat with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sandy inland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Balochistan gerbil with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat with a size of 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saharan shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common vampire bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fat mouse with a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large slit-faced bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Olive-backed pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Olive-backed pocket mouse: