It is hard to guess what a Pale kangaroo mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pale kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops pallidus) on average weights 13 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Pale kangaroo mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Microdipodops). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.5 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Pale kangaroo 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 pale kangaroo mouse or Soda Spring Valley kangaroo mouse (Microdipodops pallidus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to California and Nevada in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Pale kangaroo mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 63 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 68 grams
- Olive-backed pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a weight of 12 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Sinaloan pocket mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a weight of 56 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pale kangaroo mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microdipodops pallidus:
- Silver fruit-eating bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Western bent-winged bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Montane shrew tenrec bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Oldfield mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys minutus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Usambara shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Acuminate horseshoe bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- African black shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pale kangaroo mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pale kangaroo mouse:
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Yellow-winged bat with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Crowned shrew with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater mouse-tailed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pale kangaroo mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Pale kangaroo mouse: