How many baby Angoni vlei rats are in a litter?
A Angoni vlei rat (Otomys angoniensis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 49 grams (0.11 lbs) and measure 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Otomys). An adult Angoni vlei rat grows up to a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Angoni vlei rat (Otomys angoniensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are moist savanna, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, swamps, and pastureland. It is not considered threatened by the IUCN.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Angoni vlei rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Peters’s climbing rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed hopping mouse weighting only 100 grams
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Long-nosed hocicudo weighting only 67 grams
- Dusky hopping mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Delany’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pocock’s highland rat raching a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Deroo’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed climbing mouse weighting only 40 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Angoni vlei rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- White-footed vole
- American shrew mole
- Bottego’s shrew
- Manchurian hare
- Lion
- European snow vole
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Champion’s tree mouse
- Tasmanian devil
- Small-toothed palm civet
Animals with the same weight as a Angoni vlei rat
What other animals weight around 100 grams (0.22 lbs)?
- Highveld gerbil weighting 89 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat weighting 108 grams
- European water vole weighting 120 grams
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat weighting 104 grams
- Long-tailed hopping mouse weighting 100 grams
- Malayan field rat weighting 119 grams
- Northern palm squirrel weighting 102 grams
- Sage’s rock rat weighting 96 grams
- Garden dormouse weighting 115 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara weighting 100 grams
Animals with the same size as a Angoni vlei rat
Also reaching around 15 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- New Caledonia flying fox gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian garden dormouse gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western rock elephant shrew gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gorongoza gerbil gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Masked flying fox gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)