It is hard to guess what a San Diego pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult San Diego pocket mouse (Chaetodipus fallax) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The San Diego pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Chaetodipus). They can live for up to 8.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). On average, San Diego pocket mouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 San Diego pocket mouse (Chaetodipus fallax) is a rodent species in the family Heteromyidae. It occupies the southern region of Baja California near San Diego extending into Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a San Diego pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Hispid pocket mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 43 grams
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Arizona pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat with a weight of 108 grams
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a weight of 49 grams
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a San Diego pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus fallax:
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Bidentate yellow-shouldered bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed dunnart bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Schultz’s round-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Therese’s shrew bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Père David’s vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Bonda mastiff bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Visored bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a San Diego pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as San Diego pocket mouse:
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandy inland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater forest shrew with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-eared pocket mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a San Diego pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a San Diego pocket mouse:
- Zacatecan deer mouse
- Arctic lemming
- East African highland shrew
- Nephelomys albigularis
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- Anderson’s gerbil
- Salt marsh harvest mouse
- Common punaré
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Plains pocket gopher
Animals with the same life expectancy as a San Diego pocket mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a San Diego pocket mouse:
- Yellow-bellied marmot with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Pallid bat with an average maximal age of 9.08 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Bushveld elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 8.75 years
- Common kusimanse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Eastern quoll with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Mountain degu with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with an average maximal age of 8 years