It is hard to guess what a Silky pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Silky pocket mouse (Perognathus flavus) on average weights 7 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Silky pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Perognathus). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.9 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Silky pocket mouses can have babies 2 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 silky pocket mouse (Perognathus flavus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in northern and central Mexico and the southwest region of the United States. It is a species of least concern, according to the IUCN, with no known major threats. The silky pocket mouse eats seeds, succulent parts of plants and nuts, and carries food in its cheek pouches. It lives in low valley bottoms with soft soils, among weeds and shrubs, where it burrows in the sand to bury seed caches. The species is more tolerant of harsh habitat conditions than other pocket mice.
Animals of the same family as a Silky pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 74 grams
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a weight of 81 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 50 grams
- Nelson’s pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 73 grams
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 63 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Big-eared kangaroo rat with a weight of 78 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Silky pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perognathus flavus:
- Gray sac-winged bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Eastern long-fingered bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Lesser brown horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Benito roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Natterer’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Northern broad-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Kenyan wattled bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Greater Papuan pipistrelle bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Silky pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Silky pocket mouse:
- Cuban flower bat with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse with a size of 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tien Shan shrew with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little native mouse with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew with a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a size of 5.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Grasse’s shrew with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Orange leaf-nosed bat with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Silky pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Silky pocket mouse:
- Ochre mole-rat
- Gray-footed chipmunk
- Hoary bamboo rat
- Stein’s rat
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
- Bailey’s pocket mouse
- Plains harvest mouse
- Deroo’s mouse
- Allen’s squirrel
- Mazama pocket gopher
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Silky pocket mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Silky pocket mouse:
- Bunny rat with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- African striped weasel with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Sundevall’s jird with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Northern birch mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years