It is hard to guess what a San Quintin kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult San Quintin kangaroo rat (Dipodomys gravipes) on average weights 84 grams (0.19 lbs).
The San Quintin kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Quintin kangaroo rat (Dipodomys gravipes) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is known only from western Baja California. Its natural habitat is arid lowlands with sparse vegetation.The first description of this species was made in 1925 by Laurence M. Huey (1892–1963), an American zoologist. At that time, two large colonies of this kangaroo rat were known, but since then, the area they occupied has been converted to farmland. Until 2017, no specimens had been found since 1986 and the IUCN listed the species as “critically endangered” and possibly extinct. However, in 2017, the species was rediscovered in the Valle Tranquilo Nature Preserve by researchers from the San Diego Natural History Museum; these findings were detailed in a report published in 2018.
Animals of the same family as a San Quintin kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 67 grams
- Panamint kangaroo rat with a weight of 37 grams
- Southern spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 268 grams
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a weight of 81 grams
- Lined pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a weight of 56 grams
- Spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 16 grams
- Silky pocket mouse with a weight of 7 grams
- Giant kangaroo rat with a weight of 114 grams
Animals with the same weight as a San Quintin kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys gravipes:
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Ansell’s mole-rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Miller’s mastiff bat bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Diminutive woodrat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brunneus bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Candango mouse bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- White-bellied rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Sonoma chipmunk bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a San Quintin 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 Quintin kangaroo rat:
- Angoni vlei rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gould’s mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Zempoaltepec with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)