How many baby Ash-grey mouses are in a litter?
A Ash-grey mouse (Pseudomys albocinereus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 29 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 168 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pseudomys). An adult Ash-grey mouse grows up to a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 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 ash-grey mouse – Pseudomys albocinereus – is a rodent in the family Muridae.Larger and more robust than Mus musculus, the common house mouse, it is found only in Southwest Australia.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Ash-grey mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Rupp’s mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Oecomys flavicans weighting only 73 grams
- Sikkim rat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Roraima mouse weighting only 33 grams
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli weighting only 62 grams
- Korean field mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sikkim rat with 10 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean jumping mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ash-grey mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Smoky white-toothed shrew
- Brants’s climbing mouse
- Balochistan gerbil
- Hairy-footed gerbil
- East African highland shrew
- Gray-footed chipmunk
- Borneo black-banded squirrel
- Cape gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Ash-grey mouse
What other animals weight around 30 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat weighting 26 grams
- Japanese water shrew weighting 35 grams
- Graphiurus hueti weighting 30 grams
- Malagasy mountain mouse weighting 25 grams
- Great stripe-faced bat weighting 35 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat weighting 36 grams
- Tarabundí vole weighting 36 grams
- White-throated round-eared bat weighting 32 grams
- Kemp’s grass mouse weighting 26 grams
- Pearson’s chaco mouse weighting 25 grams
Animals with the same size as a Ash-grey mouse
Also reaching around 8.9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Olive grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Great Basin pocket mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woolly dormouse gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser large-headed shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nicobar shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Akodon spegazzinii gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)