It is hard to guess what a Pacific jumping mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pacific jumping mouse (Zapus trinotatus) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Pacific jumping mouse is from the family Dipodidae (genus: Zapus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Pacific jumping 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 Pacific jumping mouse (Zapus trinotatus) is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is found in Canada and the United States. Its natural habitats are temperate grassland and swamps.
Animals of the same family as a Pacific jumping mouse
We found other animals of the Dipodidae family:
- Lesser fat-tailed jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Southern birch mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Severtzov’s jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Northern birch mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Great jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Woodland jumping mouse with a weight of 22 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pacific jumping mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zapus trinotatus:
- Oligoryzomys andinus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix sanborni bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Common sheath-tailed bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
- White-throated round-eared bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Koford’s grass mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Large Asian roundleaf bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pacific jumping mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pacific jumping mouse:
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandy inland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woolly dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan field mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pacific jumping mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Pacific jumping mouse: