How many baby Bunny rats are in a litter?
A Bunny rat (Reithrodon auritus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Reithrodon). An adult Bunny rat grows up to a size of 14.2 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 bunny rat, or hairy-soled conyrat (Reithrodon auritus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, native to southern South America.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Bunny rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Thomas’s water mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Malayan tree rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Vinogradov’s jird with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Pale field rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Günther’s vole with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Pleasant gerbil weighting only 13 grams
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Jaliscan cotton rat weighting only 120 grams
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat raching a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sikkim mountain vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bunny rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- European badger
- Kemp’s gerbil
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Pyrenean desman
- Cape golden mole
- Common punaré
- Capybara
- Balochistan gerbil
- Himalayan field rat
- Smooth-coated otter
Animals that get as old as a Bunny rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.5 years:
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- Little free-tailed bat with 5 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 5 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Gansu pika with 5 years
- Canyon bat with 6 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- Sandhill dunnart with 5 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with 5 years
- Woylie with 6.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bunny rat
What other animals weight around 79 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Zygodontomys brunneus weighting 75 grams
- Aquatic rat weighting 66 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting 87 grams
- Big bonneted bat weighting 83 grams
- Southern flying squirrel weighting 72 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- Townsend’s mole weighting 70 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew weighting 70 grams
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat weighting 67 grams
- California kangaroo rat weighting 85 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bunny rat
Also reaching around 14.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Echigo mole gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giant kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender squirrel gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ribboned rope squirrel gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Angoni vlei rat gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)