How many baby Brazilian shrew mouses are in a litter?
A Brazilian shrew mouse (Blarinomys breviceps) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 23.38 kg (51.54 lbs) and measure 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Blarinomys). An adult Brazilian shrew mouse grows up to a size of 10.4 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 Brazilian shrew mouse (Blarinomys breviceps), also known as the blarinine akodont, is a rodent in the tribe Akodontini from the Atlantic Forest of eastern and southeastern Brazil. It is the only species in the genus Blarinomys. Phylogenetic analysis suggest that there are two clear geographical clades, a northeastern and southeastern.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Brazilian shrew mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Setzer’s pygmy mouse weighting only 6 grams
- South African pouched mouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Wilson’s spiny mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Great Key Island giant rat raching a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Oecomys speciosus weighting only 73 grams
- New Guinean rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Soft grass mouse weighting only 30 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Neuquén grass mouse weighting only 42 grams
- European pine vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brazilian shrew mouse
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Papuan bandicoot
- African bush elephant
- Western long-tongued bat
- Hoolock gibbon
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Homo sapiens
- Sloth bear
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
- Tenkile
Animals with the same weight as a Brazilian shrew mouse
What other animals weight around 36 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Delectable soft-furred mouse weighting 35 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat weighting 41 grams
- Cursor grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Silent grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Molossops abrasus weighting 35 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec weighting 39 grams
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse weighting 30 grams
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum weighting 36 grams
- Nigerian gerbil weighting 29 grams
- Mindanao montane forest mouse weighting 34 grams
Animals with the same size as a Brazilian shrew mouse
Also reaching around 10.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-necked mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Savanna path shrew gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese mountain mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese water shrew gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican shrew gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yucatan deer mouse gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican vole gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)