How many baby Brants’s climbing mouses are in a litter?
A Brants’s climbing mouse (Dendromus mesomelas) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Nesomyidae family (genus: Dendromus). An adult Brants’s climbing mouse grows up to a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″).
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.
Brants’s climbing mouse (Dendromus mesomelas) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae.It is found in Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry savanna, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.
Other animals of the family Nesomyidae
Brants’s climbing mouse is a member of the Nesomyidae, as are these animals:
- Hairy-tailed antsangy weighting only 219 grams
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat weighting only 75 grams
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat weighting only 100 grams
- Lovat’s climbing mouse weighting only 12 grams
- Betsileo short-tailed rat weighting only 93 grams
- White-bellied nesomys weighting only 214 grams
- Malagasy mountain mouse weighting only 25 grams
- Western nesomys weighting only 155 grams
- Pousargues African fat mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Gray climbing mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brants’s climbing mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Molina’s grass mouse
- Dusky caenolestid
- Plains rat
- Western chestnut mouse
- Altai birch mouse
- Large vlei rat
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Numbat
- Capybara
Animals that get as old as a Brants’s climbing mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.25 years:
- Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Southwestern water vole with 3.5 years
- African pygmy mouse with 3.08 years
- Black myotis with 3.5 years
- Coast mole with 3 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with 3.5 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with 3.08 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 3.17 years
- New Guinean quoll with 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brants’s climbing mouse
What other animals weight around 10 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Honey possum weighting 9 grams
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse weighting 10 grams
- Tonatia brasiliense weighting 9 grams
- Chestnut long-tongued bat weighting 8 grams
- Greater dog-like bat weighting 9 grams
- Hildegarde’s shrew weighting 10 grams
- Dwarf little fruit bat weighting 9 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat weighting 10 grams
- Townsend’s big-eared bat weighting 10 grams
- Lesser large-footed bat weighting 8 grams