How many baby Cutch rats are in a litter?
A Cutch rat (Cremnomys cutchicus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 18.02 kg (39.73 lbs) and measure 20.6 cm (0′ 9″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Cremnomys). An adult Cutch rat grows up to a size of 3 cm (0′ 2″).
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.
The Cutch rat (Cremnomys cutchicus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in India, where it is widely distributed in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, and Rajasthan.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Cutch rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Marmoset rat weighting only 70 grams
- Delectable soft-furred mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nephelomys keaysi weighting only 58 grams
- Michoacan deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater big-footed mouse weighting only 55 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse weighting only 42 grams
- Goldman’s water mouse weighting only 38 grams
- São Paulo grass mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cutch rat
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once: