How many baby Broad-toothed mouses are in a litter?
A Broad-toothed mouse (Mastacomys fuscus) usually gives birth to around 1 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 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Mastacomys). 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:
- Bavarian pine vole raching a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Tiny fat mouse weighting only 5 grams
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse weighting only 42 grams
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Glacier rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Japen rat weighting only 380 grams
- Long-footed water rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fraternal hill rat weighting only 130 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Broad-toothed mouse
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Barasingha
- Muskox
- Crab-eating macaque
- Southern marsupial mole
- Madagascan rousette
- Tibetan antelope
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel
- Maned rat
- White-striped dorcopsis
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-toothed mouse
What other animals weight around 125 grams (0.28 lbs)?
- Crest-tailed mulgara weighting 100 grams
- African marsh rat weighting 128 grams
- Magdalena rat weighting 130 grams
- Amazonian marsh rat weighting 120 grams
- Southern pocket gopher weighting 126 grams
- Asian garden dormouse weighting 100 grams
- White-eared cotton rat weighting 132 grams
- Tanezumi rat weighting 140 grams
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat weighting 104 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat 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:
- Baird’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mexican ground squirrel gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ribboned rope squirrel gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rossel Island melomys gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Eastern chipmunk gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)