How many baby Large tree mouses are in a litter?
A Large tree mouse (Pogonomys loriae) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pogonomys). An adult Large tree mouse grows up to a size of 13.6 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 large tree mouse (Pogonomys loriae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found on the island of New Guinea (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea).
Other animals of the family Muridae
Large tree mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Brazilian arboreal mouse weighting only 21 grams
- Long-haired rat weighting only 221 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting only 79 grams
- Zygodontomys brevicauda with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Greater big-footed mouse weighting only 55 grams
- Buffoon striped grass mouse weighting only 26 grams
- Stolička’s mountain vole with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Handleyomys intectus weighting only 60 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Large tree mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Spotted-necked otter
- Banded mongoose
- Banded linsang
- Eastern gray squirrel
- Platypus
- Smith’s bush squirrel
- Northern palm squirrel
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Crested porcupine
- Striped hyena
Animals with the same weight as a Large tree mouse
What other animals weight around 95 grams (0.21 lbs)?
- Atherton antechinus weighting 76 grams
- Angoni vlei rat weighting 100 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel weighting 104 grams
- Bocage’s mole-rat weighting 93 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat weighting 100 grams
- Highland streaked tenrec weighting 102 grams
- Paramo Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Spotted ground squirrel weighting 107 grams
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur weighting 78 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large tree mouse
Also reaching around 13.6 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Cliff chipmunk gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arianus’s rat gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dayak fruit bat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western water rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smoky mouse gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panama slender opossum gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied slender opossum gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)