How many baby Large-eared pikas are in a litter?
A Large-eared pika (Ochotona macrotis) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 8 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Ochotonidae family (genus: Ochotona). An adult Large-eared pika grows up to a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″).
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 large-eared pika (Ochotona macrotis) is a species of small mammal in the family Ochotonidae. It is found in mountainous regions of Afghanistan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan and Tajikistan where it nests among boulders and scree.
Other animals of the family Ochotonidae
Large-eared pika is a member of the Ochotonidae, as are these animals:
- American pika with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tsing-ling pika weighting only 105 grams
- Afghan pika with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Collared pika with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan pika with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sardinian pika raching a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pallas’s pika with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Royle’s pika with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nubra pika raching a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plateau pika with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Large-eared pika
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Tropical pocket gopher
- Siberian zokor
- Nyika climbing mouse
- Brown four-eyed opossum
- Chestnut white-bellied rat
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Dsinezumi shrew
- Wild boar
- Malayan weasel
- European mink
Animals with the same weight as a Large-eared pika
What other animals weight around 205 grams (0.45 lbs)?
- Peters’s climbing rat weighting 182 grams
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat weighting 172 grams
- White-throated woodrat weighting 208 grams
- Holochilus chacarius weighting 204 grams
- Bolivian squirrel weighting 190 grams
- Saharan striped polecat weighting 218 grams
- Siberian zokor weighting 225 grams
- Pteropus brunneus weighting 200 grams
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel weighting 227 grams
- Palawan treeshrew weighting 168 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large-eared pika
Also reaching around 17.8 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Whiskered flying squirrel gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Phillips’s gerbil gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Collared pika gets as big as 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern flying squirrel gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Papuan bandicoot gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Water vole (North America) gets as big as 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)