How many baby Bastard big-footed mouses are in a litter?
A Bastard big-footed mouse (Macrotarsomys bastardi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Macrotarsomys). An adult Bastard big-footed mouse grows up to a size of 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 bastard big-footed mouse (Macrotarsomys bastardi) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is found only in Madagascar. Macrotarsomys bastardi is the smallest-bodied of the three species recognized within the genus Macrotarsomys. Two subspecies have been recognized (M. b. occidentalis and M. b. bastardi) however 2004 studies did not find consistent differences between the subspecies and recommended “subspeciļ¬c epithets be abandoned for this species”.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Bastard big-footed mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Luzon short-nosed rat raching a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain giant Sunda rat weighting only 419 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chibchan water mouse weighting only 50 grams
- Cloud forest grass mouse weighting only 39 grams
- Pale gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western water rat raching a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bastard big-footed mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Marsh mongoose
- Yellow golden mole
- Iberian lynx
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat
- Long-nosed echymipera
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Moon forest shrew
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa
- Eastern harvest mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Bastard big-footed mouse
What other animals weight around 28 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Molina’s grass mouse weighting 33 grams
- Wood lemming weighting 30 grams
- Taiwan field mouse weighting 25 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse weighting 32 grams
- New Guinea free-tailed bat weighting 26 grams
- Buffoon striped grass mouse weighting 26 grams
- Gracile shrew tenrec weighting 23 grams
- Abrothrix andinus weighting 24 grams
- Monito del monte weighting 25 grams
- Sagebrush vole weighting 28 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bastard big-footed mouse
Also reaching around 9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sulawesi rousette gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bavarian pine vole gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nubra pika gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse gets as big as 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-backed vole gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- De Winton’s golden mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yucatan deer mouse gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)