How many baby Atlantic bamboo rats are in a litter?
A Atlantic bamboo rat (Kannabateomys amblyonyx) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Echimyidae family (genus: Kannabateomys). An adult Atlantic bamboo rat grows up to a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Atlantic bamboo rat (Kannabateomys amblyonyx), or southern bamboo rat, is a spiny rat species from South America, found in humid tropical forests in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. It is the only member of the genus Kannabateomys.
Other animals of the family Echimyidae
Atlantic bamboo rat is a member of the Echimyidae, as are these animals:
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roberto’s spiny rat weighting only 285 grams
- Owl’s spiny rat weighting only 114 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat weighting only 285 grams
- Common punaré with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-headed spiny rat weighting only 30 grams
- Guyanan spiny rat weighting only 284 grams
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat weighting only 296 grams
- Napo spiny rat weighting only 284 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Atlantic bamboo rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northeast African mole-rat
- Green bush squirrel
- Long-footed water rat
- Fin whale
- Javan surili
- Hottentot golden mole
- Malagasy civet
- Red deer
- Micronycteris nicefori
- Hero shrew
Animals that get as old as a Atlantic bamboo rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.58 years:
- Ornate shrew with 1.42 years
- Southern red-backed vole with 1.67 years
- Montane shrew with 1.33 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with 1.75 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with 1.75 years
- Western harvest mouse with 1.5 years
- Brush mouse with 1.5 years
- North American least shrew with 1.75 years
- Long-clawed shrew with 1.5 years
- Arctic shrew with 1.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Atlantic bamboo rat
What other animals weight around 600 grams (1.32 lbs)?
- Musky rat-kangaroo weighting 535 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting 675 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel weighting 510 grams
- Yellow-bellied glider weighting 568 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Gray-backed sportive lemur weighting 506 grams
- Forest giant squirrel weighting 630 grams
- Amazon bamboo rat weighting 650 grams
- Numbat weighting 517 grams
- Grey-headed flying fox weighting 702 grams