How many baby Big-eared climbing rats are in a litter?
A Big-eared climbing rat (Ototylomys phyllotis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 52 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Ototylomys). An adult Big-eared climbing rat grows up to a size of 15.2 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 big-eared climbing rat (Ototylomys phyllotis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Big-eared climbing rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Montane fish-eating rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bush vlei rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Colombian forest mouse weighting only 19 grams
- Day’s grass mouse weighting only 32 grams
- Bavarian pine vole raching a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- São Paulo grass mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting only 41 grams
- Northern collared lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Nigerian gerbil weighting only 29 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Big-eared climbing rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Big-eared swamp rat
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Radde’s shrew
- Northern pygmy mouse
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
- Gobi jerboa
- Alston’s brown mouse
- Striped hyena
- Yellow golden mole
- Himalayan striped squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Big-eared climbing rat
What other animals weight around 86 grams (0.19 lbs)?
- San Quintin kangaroo rat weighting 84 grams
- Merriam’s chipmunk weighting 74 grams
- Atherton antechinus weighting 76 grams
- Low’s squirrel weighting 85 grams
- Andean mouse weighting 69 grams
- Leschenault’s rousette weighting 84 grams
- Japanese mole weighting 82 grams
- Long-tailed mountain rat weighting 79 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting 87 grams
- Kimberley rock rat weighting 95 grams
Animals with the same size as a Big-eared climbing rat
Also reaching around 15.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Plains pocket gopher gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains viscacha rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sado mole gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan field rat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Congo rope squirrel gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Naked mole-rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)