How big does a Western jumping mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Western jumping mouse (Zapus princeps) reaches an average size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 27 grams (0.06 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Western jumping mouses have 5 babies about 1 times per year. The Western jumping mouse (genus: Zapus) is a member of the family Dipodidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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:
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Northern birch mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Bobrinski’s jerboa with 5 babies per litter
- Comb-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tien Shan birch mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Thick-tailed pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per litter
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:
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Western heather vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland jumping mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Steppe lemming with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 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:
- Kowari
- Sagebrush vole
- Arctic hare
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Middendorf’s vole
- Marbled polecat
- Eastern quoll
- Crowned shrew
- Water vole (North America)
- Southern red-backed vole
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:
- Serra do Mar grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Beaded wood mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Grey dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Kultarr bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale