How many baby Brush-tailed rabbit rats are in a litter?
A Brush-tailed rabbit rat (Conilurus penicillatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 36 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 318 grams (0.7 lbs) and measure 20.6 cm (0′ 9″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Conilurus). An adult Brush-tailed rabbit rat grows up to a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″).
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 brush-tailed rabbit rat (Conilurus penicillatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Brush-tailed rabbit rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Mongolian hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Djoongari with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Aquatic rat weighting only 66 grams
- Mearns’s pouched mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Chibchan water mouse weighting only 50 grams
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nephelomys albigularis with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Little native mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hooper’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat weighting only 186 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Brush-tailed rabbit rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Val’s gundi
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel
- Cape dune mole-rat
- Mexican vole
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Red-handed tamarin
- Guaira spiny rat
- Amami rabbit
- Gambian sun squirrel
- Peters’s musk shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Brush-tailed rabbit rat
What other animals weight around 175 grams (0.39 lbs)?
- Brazilian squirrel weighting 177 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby weighting 148 grams
- Pale field rat weighting 169 grams
- Large-eared pika weighting 205 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat weighting 167 grams
- Bolivian squirrel weighting 190 grams
- Bolaños woodrat weighting 198 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat weighting 209 grams
- Attwater’s pocket gopher weighting 144 grams
Animals with the same size as a Brush-tailed rabbit rat
Also reaching around 18.9 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Dinagat gymnure gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Douglas squirrel gets as big as 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tsing-ling pika gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brooke’s squirrel gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-toothed mouse gets as big as 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Edible dormouse gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tiny tuco-tuco gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)