How many baby Ashy chinchilla rats are in a litter?
A Ashy chinchilla rat (Abrocoma cinerea) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 109 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 13 grams (0.03 lbs). They are a member of the Abrocomidae family (genus: Abrocoma).
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 ashy chinchilla rat (Abrocoma cinerea) is a species of chinchilla rats in the family Abrocomidae found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
Other animals of the family Abrocomidae
Ashy chinchilla rat is a member of the Abrocomidae, as are these animals:
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bolivian chinchilla rat weighting only 158 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Ashy chinchilla rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Eurasian otter
- Snow leopard
- Feathertail glider
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Amami rabbit
- Stirton’s deer mouse
- Mexican harvest mouse
- Siberian roe deer
- Edward’s swamp rat
- Common genet
Animals with the same weight as a Ashy chinchilla rat
What other animals weight around 194 grams (0.43 lbs)?
- Arizona woodrat weighting 200 grams
- Mira climbing rat weighting 184 grams
- Mountain weasel weighting 180 grams
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur weighting 197 grams
- Mohol bushbaby weighting 193 grams
- Maxomys baeodon weighting 159 grams
- Tamaulipan woodrat weighting 198 grams
- Three-striped ground squirrel weighting 175 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat weighting 167 grams
- Dusky-footed woodrat weighting 219 grams