How many baby Abrothrix longipiliss are in a litter?
A Abrothrix longipilis (Abrothrix longipilis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Cricetidae family (genus: Abrothrix). An adult Abrothrix longipilis grows up to a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Abrothrix longipilis, also known as the long-haired grass mouse or long-haired akodont, is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in central and southern Argentina and Chile. The southern Chilean Abrothrix sanborni may not be distinct from this species.
Other animals of the family Cricetidae
Abrothrix longipilis is a member of the Cricetidae, as are these animals:
- Grey red-backed vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Lundomys with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted bolo mouse weighting only 37 grams
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse weighting only 47 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting only 60 grams
- Brucepattersonius iheringi weighting only 43 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hylaeamys laticeps weighting only 49 grams
- Montane grass mouse raching a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting only 24 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Abrothrix longipilis
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Ash-grey mouse
- Black-backed jackal
- Northern grasshopper mouse
- White-tailed rat
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat
- Northern flying squirrel
- Mountain pocket gopher
- Hoary fox
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse
- Crab-eating fox
Animals with the same weight as a Abrothrix longipilis
What other animals weight around 38 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Desert mouse weighting 37 grams
- Field vole weighting 35 grams
- Macmillan’s thicket rat weighting 37 grams
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat weighting 33 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse weighting 39 grams
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat weighting 44 grams
- Greater broad-nosed bat weighting 37 grams
- Comoro rousette weighting 45 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse weighting 40 grams
- Cochabamba grass mouse weighting 34 grams