How many baby Abrothrix longipiliss are in a litter?
A Abrothrix longipilis (Akodon longipilis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Akodon). An adult Abrothrix longipilis grows up to a size of 58.3 cm (1′ 11″).
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 Muridae
Abrothrix longipilis is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse weighting only 47 grams
- Vogelkop mountain rat raching a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Jalapan pine vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grant’s rock mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Long-clawed mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s woodrat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Emin’s pouched rat weighting around 1.28 kilograms (2.82 lbs)
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern pygmy mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Abrothrix longipilis
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Balochistan gerbil
- Hairy-footed gerbil
- Western red-backed vole
- Plains harvest mouse
- Western red-backed vole
- Major’s pine vole
- Xerus erythropus
- Northern flying squirrel
- Pampas fox
- Namaqua rock rat
Animals with the same weight as a Abrothrix longipilis
What other animals weight around 38 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse weighting 37 grams
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum weighting 36 grams
- Sclater’s golden mole weighting 39 grams
- Rudd’s mouse weighting 35 grams
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat weighting 33 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole weighting 42 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat weighting 41 grams
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat weighting 37 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse weighting 39 grams