How many baby Tullberg’s soft-furred mouses are in a litter?
A Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse (Praomys tullbergi) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 4 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 12 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Praomys). An adult Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse grows up to a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse or Tullberg’s praomys (Praomys tullbergi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, possibly Burkina Faso, and possibly Guinea-Bissau.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Aquatic rat weighting only 66 grams
- Black-eared mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Carpentarian rock rat weighting only 123 grams
- Townsend’s vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Tres Marías Island mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brown rat with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Yucatan deer mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Smoke-bellied rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Meadow vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Chilean rock rat
- Common dwarf mongoose
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Smoky white-toothed shrew
- Darien harvest mouse
- Small Indian civet
- Chiriqui brown mouse
- Oryzomys couesi
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat
Animals that get as old as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.17 years:
- Abbott’s duiker with 5.42 years
- Wood mouse with 4.33 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with 5 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
- Woodland thicket rat with 4.33 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with 5 years
- Otter civet with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
What other animals weight around 37 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse weighting 38 grams
- Common rock rat weighting 40 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew weighting 42 grams
- El Dorado grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- California red tree mouse weighting 32 grams
- Dark fruit-eating bat weighting 35 grams
- Least chipmunk weighting 42 grams
- Irenomys weighting 43 grams
- Naked-eared deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Golden spiny mouse weighting 42 grams
Animals with the same size as a Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
Also reaching around 10.1 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden spiny mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sepia short-tailed opossum gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Handley’s slender opossum gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)