It is hard to guess what a Western jumping mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western jumping mouse (Zapus princeps) on average weights 27 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Western jumping mouse is from the family Dipodidae (genus: Zapus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Western jumping mouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 western jumping mouse (Zapus princeps), is a species of rodent in the family Dipodidae. It is found in Canada and the United States.Western jumping mice evolved during the Pleistocene, possibly from the fossil species Zapus burti, which is known from the late Blancan. Their closest relatives appear to be Pacific jumping mice, with which they can still interbreed to produce fertile offspring.
Animals of the same family as a Western jumping mouse
We found other animals of the Dipodidae family:
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa with a weight of 60 grams
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Altai birch mouse with a weight of 10 grams
- Woodland jumping mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Greater Egyptian jerboa with a weight of 138 grams
- Great jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Bobrinski’s jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Tien Shan birch mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Gobi jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Southern birch mouse with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Western jumping mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zapus princeps:
- Hairy-legged vampire bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Common sheath-tailed bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Ash-grey mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Yellow golden mole bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Scolomys melanops bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- White-footed dunnart bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Western jumping mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Western jumping mouse:
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Blue-gray mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland jumping mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least chipmunk with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Creeping vole with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Western jumping mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Western jumping mouse: