It is hard to guess what a Panamint kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Panamint kangaroo rat (Dipodomys panamintinus) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Panamint kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Panamint kangaroo rats have 2 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 Panamint kangaroo rat (Dipodomys panamintinus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to the Mojave Desert in eastern California and western Nevada, in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Panamint kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 65 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 268 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 73 grams
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 67 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse with a weight of 35 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Panamint kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys panamintinus:
- Goldman’s water mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Painted spiny pocket mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Yellow-footed antechinus bringing 44 grams to the scale
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Spinifex hopping mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Common vampire bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Panamint kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Panamint kangaroo rat:
- Preble’s shrew with a size of 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern ghost bat with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Allen’s big-eared bat with a size of 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Panamint kangaroo rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Panamint kangaroo rat: