How many baby Allen’s woodrats are in a litter?
A Allen’s woodrat (Hodomys alleni) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 16.46 kg (36.28 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Hodomys). An adult Allen’s woodrat grows up to a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″).
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.
Allen’s woodrat (Hodomys alleni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is the only species in the genus Hodomys.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Allen’s woodrat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Master leaf-eared mouse weighting only 68 grams
- Lesser ranee mouse raching a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nephelomys albigularis with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed rabbit-rat weighting only 200 grams
- Mindoro climbing rat raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Luzon forest mouse weighting only 35 grams
- Eastern chestnut mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- White-throated woodrat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kimberley rock rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Allen’s woodrat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Long-tongued nectar bat
- Alpine musk deer
- Western white-eared giant rat
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat
- Striped dolphin
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Siberian musk deer
- Gray brocket
- Black flying fox
- Dwarf sperm whale
Animals with the same weight as a Allen’s woodrat
What other animals weight around 368 grams (0.81 lbs)?
- White-headed marmoset weighting 342 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher weighting 350 grams
- Little red flying fox weighting 379 grams
- Emperor tamarin weighting 409 grams
- Spiny Ceram rat weighting 306 grams
- San Luis tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- European hamster weighting 429 grams
- Natterer’s tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Zanj sun squirrel weighting 347 grams
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat weighting 304 grams
Animals with the same size as a Allen’s woodrat
Also reaching around 22.3 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Striped bandicoot gets as big as 26.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mexican ground squirrel gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Green bush squirrel gets as big as 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-furred dasyure gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Amur hedgehog gets as big as 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ornate flying fox gets as big as 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- New Guinea waterside rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pygmy treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Masoala fork-marked lemur gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)