How many baby Acacia rats are in a litter?
A Acacia rat (Thallomys paedulcus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 26 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Thallomys). An adult Acacia rat grows up to a size of 100 cm (3′ 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.
The acacia rat (Thallomys paedulcus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Somalia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Acacia rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Dollman’s melomys raching a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Thespian grass mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Woodland thicket rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse raching a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chiapan climbing rat weighting only 280 grams
- Abrothrix jelskii weighting only 34 grams
- Stein’s paramelomys raching a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rudd’s mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Acacia rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Broad-footed mole
- Palmer’s chipmunk
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- Sado mole
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Canyon mouse
- Himalayan pika
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Eastern mole
- Black-tailed dasyure
Animals that get as old as a Acacia rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.5 years:
- Black rat with 4.17 years
- Little red kaluta with 3 years
- Pallas’s pika with 4 years
- Striped field mouse with 4 years
- Brown antechinus with 3 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with 3.17 years
- Black myotis with 3.5 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with 3 years
- Japanese mountain mole with 3 years
- Aders’s duiker with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Acacia rat
What other animals weight around 77 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Balkan mole weighting 70 grams
- Oecomys rutilus weighting 73 grams
- Smoky mouse weighting 68 grams
- Mashona mole-rat weighting 65 grams
- Southern flying squirrel weighting 72 grams
- Puna mouse weighting 84 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis weighting 63 grams
- Norway lemming weighting 67 grams
- Lesser naked-backed fruit bat weighting 85 grams
- Northern red-sided opossum weighting 79 grams