How many baby California red tree mouses are in a litter?
A California red tree mouse (Arborimus pomo) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 32 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Arborimus). An adult California red tree mouse grows up to a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 California red tree mouse or Sonoma tree vole (Arborimus pomo) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. The species is found in northwest California.The preferred habitat for this primarily arboreal vole is old-growth Douglas-fir forests.
Other animals of the family Muridae
California red tree mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Oecomys flavicans weighting only 73 grams
- Euryoryzomys lamia weighting only 60 grams
- Big-eared swamp rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting only 60 grams
- Annandale’s rat weighting only 197 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Zempoaltepec with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse weighting only 41 grams
- Eversmann’s hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with California red tree mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Mexican small-eared shrew
- Peters’s musk shrew
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Target rat
- European snow vole
- False water rat
- Sandy inland mouse
- Turbo shrew
- Banana climbing mouse
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa
Animals with the same weight as a California red tree mouse
What other animals weight around 32 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Tyler’s mouse opossum weighting 32 grams
- Woodland vole weighting 26 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat weighting 36 grams
- Ash-grey mouse weighting 30 grams
- Japanese water shrew weighting 36 grams
- Naked-rumped tomb bat weighting 31 grams
- White-striped free-tailed bat weighting 36 grams
- Delectable soft-furred mouse weighting 35 grams
- Graphiurus hueti weighting 30 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure weighting 38 grams
Animals with the same size as a California red tree mouse
Also reaching around 9.9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Gray-tailed vole gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater forest shrew gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-toothed brush mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- False water rat gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Philippine tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern caenolestid gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bailey’s pocket mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)