How many baby Cameroon soft-furred mouses are in a litter?
A Cameroon soft-furred mouse (Praomys morio) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 36 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Praomys). An adult Cameroon soft-furred mouse grows up to a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Cameroon soft-furred mouse or Cameroon praomys (Praomys morio) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Cameroon soft-furred mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Bibimys torresi weighting only 28 grams
- Southern mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Giant naked-tailed rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kalinowski’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- White-footed mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern woodrat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Cerrado mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cameroon soft-furred mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Mountain pocket gopher
- Brown palm civet
- Savanna gerbil
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Pinyon mouse
- Savanna path shrew
- Taiwan field mouse
- Juniper vole
- Western red-backed vole
- Derby’s woolly opossum
Animals with the same weight as a Cameroon soft-furred mouse
What other animals weight around 41 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse weighting 47 grams
- Aztec mouse weighting 34 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat weighting 36 grams
- Large vesper mouse weighting 45 grams
- Paramo hocicudo weighting 41 grams
- Great evening bat weighting 49 grams
- Molossops abrasus weighting 35 grams
- Jamaican fruit bat weighting 42 grams
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat weighting 35 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat weighting 36 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cameroon soft-furred mouse
Also reaching around 11.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-sided opossum gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Painted spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed mouse gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northwestern deer mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pen-tailed treeshrew gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Junin slender opossum gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)