How many baby Chiruromys lamias are in a litter?
A Chiruromys lamia (Chiruromys lamia) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Chiruromys). An adult Chiruromys lamia grows up to a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
Chiruromys lamia, also known as the lamia or the broad-headed tree mouse, is a species of rodent found chiefly in southeastern New Guinea. It is arboreal, living in hollow tree nests, and is found at elevations of 1,200–2,300 metres (3,900–7,500 ft).
Other animals of the family Muridae
Chiruromys lamia is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Grey dwarf hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse weighting only 34 grams
- Gray spiny mouse raching a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Glacier rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Burt’s deer mouse raching a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Small hocicudo weighting only 67 grams
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese grass vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Big-eared hopping mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Djoongari with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Chiruromys lamia
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Cinereus ringtail possum
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Common mole-rat
- Marsh mongoose
- Somali serotine
- Gray-bellied tree mouse
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset
- Niobe’s shrew
- Eurasian beaver
- Jaguarundi
Animals with the same weight as a Chiruromys lamia
What other animals weight around 47 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat weighting 42 grams
- Spanish mole weighting 48 grams
- Short-snouted elephant shrew weighting 45 grams
- Uinta chipmunk weighting 51 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- Greater Wilfred’s mouse weighting 46 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum weighting 45 grams
- Indian roundleaf bat weighting 44 grams
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat weighting 48 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
Animals with the same size as a Chiruromys lamia
Also reaching around 11.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Stirton’s deer mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Durango chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese water shrew gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-tailed gymnure gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northwestern deer mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican mouse opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rudd’s mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)