How many baby Broad-toothed mouses are in a litter?
A Broad-toothed mouse (Pseudomys fuscus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 35 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pseudomys). An adult Broad-toothed mouse grows up to a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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 broad-toothed rat (Mastacomys fuscus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Broad-toothed mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Broad-toothed mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mindanao mountain rat raching a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Highveld gerbil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Western pebble-mound mouse weighting only 10 grams
- Alston’s cotton rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Southern big-eared mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Crafty vesper mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Fat sand rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- South African pouched mouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Melanomys caliginosus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Broad-toothed mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Fossa (animal)
- Binturong
- Desert pocket mouse
- Florida mouse
- Glacier rat
- Cape ground squirrel
- Fennec fox
- Black-striped squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-toothed mouse
What other animals weight around 129 grams (0.28 lbs)?
- Greater fairy armadillo weighting 129 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel weighting 135 grams
- White-tailed antelope squirrel weighting 104 grams
- Dian’s tarsier weighting 110 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 144 grams
- Hinde’s rock rat weighting 141 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby weighting 148 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 120 grams
- Whiskered flying squirrel weighting 108 grams
Animals with the same size as a Broad-toothed mouse
Also reaching around 16.6 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Painted treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Père David’s mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red rock rat gets as big as 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-throated woodrat gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)