It is hard to guess what a Woodland jumping mouse weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Woodland jumping mouse is from the family Dipodidae (genus: Napaeozapus). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Woodland jumping mouses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) is a species of jumping mouse found in North America. Its Latin name means glen or wooded dell + big or strong feet + a distinguishing mark. This mammal can jump up to 3 m (9.8 ft) using its extremely strong feet and long tail.
Animals of the same family as a Woodland jumping mouse
We found other animals of the Dipodidae family:
- Small five-toed jerboa with a weight of 59 grams
- Western jumping mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Euphrates jerboa with a weight of 232 grams
- Northern three-toed jerboa with a weight of 89 grams
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Meadow jumping mouse with a weight of 18 grams
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with a weight of 59 grams
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Four-toed jerboa with a weight of 52 grams
- Pacific jumping mouse with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland jumping mouse
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Napaeozapus insignis:
- Chiriqui harvest mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Malagasy white-bellied free-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Père David’s vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Agile gracile opossum bringing 22 grams to the scale
- White-eared pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Tonatia carrikeri bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys destructor bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Drylands vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Woodland jumping mouse
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woodland jumping mouse:
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Holland mouse with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean planigale with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woodland jumping mouse
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Woodland jumping mouse:
- Krebs’s fat mouse
- Sonoma chipmunk
- California pocket mouse
- Bank vole
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
- Hooded skunk
- Tien Shan birch mouse
- Pygmy gerbil
- Hairy-tailed mole
- Beach vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woodland jumping mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woodland jumping mouse:
- Giant golden mole with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Northern common cuscus with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Smith’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Gray tree rat with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Sminthopsis laniger with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years