It is hard to guess what a San José Island kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult San José Island kangaroo rat (Dipodomys insularis) on average weights 38 grams (0.08 lbs).
The San José Island kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.2 cm (0′ 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 San José Island kangaroo rat (Dipodomys merriami insularis) is a subspecies of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is found only on San José Island off the east coast of Baja California Sur. (Dipodomys merriami insularis) is restricted to an area of only 30 km2 in the southwestern coast of San José Island, Lower California, with the population having been drastically reduced in size and being close to extinction No other species of Dipodomys occur in sympatry with D. insularis.
Animals of the same family as a San José Island kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Little desert pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a weight of 125 grams
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 268 grams
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 67 grams
- San Diego pocket mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a weight of 78 grams
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 63 grams
Animals with the same weight as a San José Island kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys insularis:
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Tawny deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Cursor grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Mole-like rice tenrec bringing 34 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a San José Island kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as San José Island kangaroo rat:
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- False canyon mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-bellied slender opossum with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- African giant shrew with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)