How many baby Asian garden dormouses are in a litter?
A Asian garden dormouse (Eliomys melanurus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 25 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Myoxidae family (genus: Eliomys). An adult Asian garden dormouse grows up to a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Asian garden dormouse or large-eared garden dormouse, (Eliomys melanurus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae.It is found in Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey.Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, rocky areas and gardens.It is active throughout the year but can enter a state of torpor. Diet consists mainly of insects, snails, centipedes and geckos but as an omnivore, it will also eat plant matter. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Myoxidae
Asian garden dormouse is a member of the Myoxidae, as are these animals:
- Woodland dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese dormouse weighting only 31 grams
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rock dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Christy’s dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Desert dormouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Asian garden dormouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Western jumping mouse
- Meadow jumping mouse
- Northern grass mouse
- Wyoming ground squirrel
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Montane shrew
- Eurasian harvest mouse
- Olive grass mouse
- Star-nosed mole
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum
Animals with the same weight as a Asian garden dormouse
What other animals weight around 100 grams (0.22 lbs)?
- Jaliscan cotton rat weighting 120 grams
- Plain brush-tailed rat weighting 105 grams
- Santander dwarf squirrel weighting 99 grams
- Bush vlei rat weighting 102 grams
- Texas kangaroo rat weighting 106 grams
- Silky Oldfield mouse weighting 115 grams
- Durango chipmunk weighting 85 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew weighting 112 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat weighting 106 grams
- Puna mouse weighting 84 grams
Animals with the same size as a Asian garden dormouse
Also reaching around 13.7 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Harpy fruit bat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hottentot golden mole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Habbema dasyure gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Siberian flying squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pika gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindoro climbing rat gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)