How many baby Bushy-tailed jirds are in a litter?
A Bushy-tailed jird (Sekeetamys calurus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Sekeetamys). An adult Bushy-tailed jird grows up to a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″).
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 bushy-tailed jird or bushy-tailed dipodil (Sekeetamys calurus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Sekeetamys. It is found in Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan. Its natural habitat is rocky areas.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Bushy-tailed jird is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Florida mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Transcaucasian mole vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Burt’s deer mouse raching a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tristram’s jird with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Slender rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mindanao montane forest mouse weighting only 34 grams
- Oligoryzomys microtis weighting only 22 grams
- Fraternal hill rat weighting only 130 grams
- Chelemys macronyx with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bushy-tailed jird
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Cactus mouse
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Sonoran woodrat
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Horsfield’s treeshrew
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Smith’s bush squirrel
- Honey possum
Animals that get as old as a Bushy-tailed jird
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.33 years:
- Serotine bat with 6 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Numbat with 6 years
- Paucident planigale with 5 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 5 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with 4.33 years
- Slender mongoose with 6 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 6 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with 5.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bushy-tailed jird
What other animals weight around 56 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat weighting 47 grams
- Ord’s kangaroo rat weighting 50 grams
- Fringed fruit-eating bat weighting 63 grams
- Garlepp’s mouse weighting 59 grams
- Midas free-tailed bat weighting 45 grams
- Champion’s tree mouse weighting 50 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby weighting 66 grams
- Chiruromys lamia weighting 47 grams
- Puebla deer mouse weighting 59 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure weighting 54 grams