How many baby Brown mouse lemurs are in a litter?
A Brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 60 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cheirogaleidae family (genus: Microcebus). An adult Brown mouse lemur grows up to a size of 14.3 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 brown mouse lemur (Microcebus rufus) is a small primate, and like the other mouse lemurs can only be found on the island of Madagascar. They are known also as the rufous mouse lemur, eastern rufous mouse lemur, red mouse lemur, or russet mouse lemur. Its dorsal side is brown or reddish-brown, while ventrally it is a whitish-grey.It was originally considered a subspecies of the gray mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) until 1977, when it was reclassified as a separate species.The mouse lemurs are among the shortest-lived of primates. The brown mouse lemur has a lifespan of 6–8 years in the wild, although it averages 12 years under human care.It can be found in rainforests in Eastern Madagascar, and is widely distributed. It is a solitary and nocturnal creature. Brown mouse lemurs are mammals.
Other animals of the family Cheirogaleidae
Brown mouse lemur is a member of the Cheirogaleidae, as are these animals:
- Pygmy mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern rufous mouse lemur weighting only 68 grams
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Greater dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-brown mouse lemur weighting only 58 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting only 49 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur weighting only 70 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brown mouse lemur
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Western gray squirrel
- Deppe’s squirrel
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Bastard big-footed mouse
- Gray tree rat
- Fennec fox
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
- Binturong
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset
Animals that get as old as a Brown mouse lemur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Beira (antelope) with 14 years
- Javan warty pig with 14 years
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with 11 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with 14 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brown mouse lemur
What other animals weight around 48 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting 55 grams
- Julia Creek dunnart weighting 55 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting 49 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse weighting 40 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse weighting 40 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat weighting 40 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat weighting 47 grams
- Gray-bellied tree mouse weighting 41 grams
- Rufous elephant shrew weighting 52 grams
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 40 grams
Animals with the same size as a Brown mouse lemur
Also reaching around 14.3 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican deer mouse gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Arianus’s rat gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sundevall’s jird gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Alexander’s bush squirrel gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sculptor squirrel gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bunny rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)