How many baby Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rufescens) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Melomys). An adult Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 13.7 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 black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rufescens) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to the island of New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Vinogradov’s jird with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Chihuahuan mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Hairy-footed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mindoro black rat with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat weighting only 93 grams
- Senegal gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Thespian grass mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Southern pygmy mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Bushpig
- Central African oyan
- Wolverine
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Dark-footed mouse shrew
- Black-footed tree-rat
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
Animals with the same weight as a Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 60 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Northern water rat weighting 54 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat weighting 61 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx weighting 50 grams
- Eremoryzomys weighting 60 grams
- Zygodontomys brevicauda weighting 52 grams
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa weighting 59 grams
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat weighting 56 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus weighting 49 grams
- Andean rat weighting 53 grams
- Andean swamp rat weighting 64 grams
Animals with the same size as a Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 13.7 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Southern flying squirrel gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pseudoryzomys gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Champion’s tree mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland thicket rat gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Patagonian opossum gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-footed chipmunk gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush rat gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Père David’s mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)