It is hard to guess what a Spiny pocket mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spiny pocket mouse (Chaetodipus spinatus) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Spiny pocket mouse is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Chaetodipus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Spiny pocket mouses 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.
The spiny pocket mouse (Chaetodipus spinatus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae and order Rodentia. It is found in Baja California in Mexico and in Arizona, California and Nevada in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Spiny pocket mouse
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 67 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Little pocket mouse with a weight of 8 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 69 grams
- Arizona pocket mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Sinaloan pocket mouse with a weight of 17 grams
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 63 grams
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 37 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Spiny pocket mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaetodipus spinatus:
- Ipanema bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Little big-eyed bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- White-footed mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Egyptian free-tailed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Chiriqui brown mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Spiny pocket mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Spiny pocket mouse:
- Sandstone false antechinus with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jamaican fruit bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ammodile with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew with a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wood mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cyclops roundleaf bat with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Spiny pocket mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Spiny pocket mouse: