How many baby Fat mouses are in a litter?
A Fat mouse (Steatomys pratensis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 6.3 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Steatomys). An adult Fat mouse grows up to a size of 5.8 cm (0′ 3″).
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 fat mouse (Steatomys pratensis) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Fat mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Oligoryzomys griseolus weighting only 25 grams
- Soft grass mouse weighting only 30 grams
- Bismarck giant rat weighting only 612 grams
- Eligmodontia typus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- African groove-toothed rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Stephen’s woodrat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Isarog shrew-rat weighting only 122 grams
- Arizona woodrat weighting only 200 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Fat mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Northern brown bandicoot
- Black-eared mouse
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
- Vancouver Island marmot
- Southern flying squirrel
- Nelson’s pocket mouse
- Dusky caenolestid
- Juniper vole
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel
- Beech marten
Animals with the same weight as a Fat mouse
What other animals weight around 34 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Florida mouse weighting 30 grams
- Abrothrix jelskii weighting 34 grams
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat weighting 35 grams
- Rudd’s mouse weighting 35 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting 34 grams
- Large-eared free-tailed bat weighting 34 grams
- European free-tailed bat weighting 28 grams
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat weighting 33 grams
- Crested-tailed deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse weighting 30 grams
Animals with the same size as a Fat mouse
Also reaching around 5.8 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Eurasian least shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little brown bat gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mindanao pygmy fruit bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Saint Lawrence Island shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian slit-faced bat gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Azumi shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew gets as big as 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)