How many baby White-bellied mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys leucogaster) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Melomys). An adult White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″).
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 white-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys leucogaster) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Blackish grass mouse weighting only 19 grams
- Red rock rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- House mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Central rock rat weighting only 100 grams
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Robbins’s tateril weighting only 47 grams
- Günther’s vole with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red tree vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse weighting only 27 grams
Animals that share a litter size with White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
- Guyenne spiny rat
- Indian grey mongoose
- Northern palm squirrel
- Mexican vole
- Mozambique thicket rat
- Pampas cat
- Jaguarundi
- Greater bilby
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse
Animals with the same weight as a White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 104 grams (0.23 lbs)?
- Sloggett’s vlei rat weighting 106 grams
- Kobe mole weighting 95 grams
- Pink fairy armadillo weighting 86 grams
- Summit rat weighting 107 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- Short-tailed hopping mouse weighting 89 grams
- Congo rope squirrel weighting 112 grams
- Guinean gerbil weighting 102 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat weighting 85 grams
- Madagascan flying fox weighting 122 grams
Animals with the same size as a White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 15.3 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Anthony’s woodrat gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Himalayan pika gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brazilian squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Himalayan field rat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Durango chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dayak fruit bat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lowland brush mouse gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)