It is hard to guess what a Phillips’s kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Phillips’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys phillipsii) on average weights 41 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Phillips’s kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.6 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Phillips’s 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.
Phillips’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys phillipsii) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts.The species is named after John Phillips, an official of a Mexican mining company who sent zoological specimens, including the type specimen of this kangaroo rat, to the British Museum.
Animals of the same family as a Phillips’s kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 68 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Rock pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Pale kangaroo mouse with a weight of 13 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 63 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 24 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Phillips’s kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys phillipsii:
- Djoongari bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Black mastiff bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Fresno kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Montane vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Akodon sylvanus bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Halmahera blossom bat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Cuban fruit-eating bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- African giant shrew bringing 33 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Phillips’s kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Phillips’s kangaroo rat:
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red tree vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western heather vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-footed mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Star-nosed mole with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Phillips’s kangaroo rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Phillips’s kangaroo rat: