It is hard to guess what a Stephens’s kangaroo rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Stephens’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys stephensi) on average weights 68 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Stephens’s kangaroo rat is from the family Heteromyidae (genus: Dipodomys). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.6 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Stephens’s kangaroo rats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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.
Stephens’s kangaroo rat (Dipodomys stephensi) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to the Southern California region of the United States, primarily in western Riverside County. The species is named after American zoologist Frank Stephens (1849–1937).The natural habitat of Stephens’s kangaroo rat is sparsely vegetated temperate grassland. This habitat has been destroyed or modified for agriculture throughout the species’ range; as a result, Stephens’s kangaroo rat is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. It occurs sympatrically with the agile kangaroo rat, but tends to prefer few shrubs and gravelly soils to the agile’s preference for denser shrubs.
Animals of the same family as a Stephens’s kangaroo rat
We found other animals of the Heteromyidae family:
- San Diego pocket mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 50 grams
- California pocket mouse with a weight of 23 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with a weight of 21 grams
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with a weight of 6 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse with a weight of 69 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse with a weight of 35 grams
- Rock pocket mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a weight of 41 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Stephens’s kangaroo rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dipodomys stephensi:
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Pohle’s fruit bat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltepec bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Brown deer mouse bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Norway lemming bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rex bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys nitidus bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Western chestnut mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Fringed fruit-eating bat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed gymnure bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Stephens’s kangaroo rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Stephens’s kangaroo rat:
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Madagascan rousette with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Stephens’s kangaroo rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Stephens’s kangaroo rat: