How big does a Woodland jumping mouse get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) reaches an average size of 9 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 4 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 22 grams (0.05 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Woodland jumping mouses have 4 babies about 1 times per year. The Woodland jumping mouse (genus: Napaeozapus) 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 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:
- Western jumping mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern birch mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Altai birch mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Great jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Southern birch mouse with a weight of 11 grams
- Meadow jumping mouse with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Thick-tailed pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per litter
- Northern three-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa with 3 babies per litter
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:
- Dark kangaroo mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Antillean fruit-eating bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- New Guinean jumping mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sulawesi rousette with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 7.8 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:
- Culpeo
- Caucasian squirrel
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
- Himalayan shrew
- Boehm’s gerbil
- Great gerbil
- Siberian zokor
- Indian gerbil
- European hedgehog
- Barbary striped grass mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woodland jumping mouse
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woodland jumping mouse:
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Giant golden mole with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Great Basin pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Günther’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
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:
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Scolomys melanops bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Eloquent horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- White-footed mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Grant’s golden mole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Chiriqui harvest mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Tonatia carrikeri bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Thespian grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Sinaloan mastiff bat bringing 22 grams to the scale