How many baby Cape York rats are in a litter?
A Cape York rat (Rattus leucopus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). An adult Cape York 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 Cape York rat (Rattus leucopus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in southern New Guinea, in both Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, and in Cape York Peninsula in Australia.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Cape York rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat becoming 2 years old
- White-eared cotton rat weighting only 132 grams
- Philippine forest rat weighting only 253 grams
- Akodon albiventer weighting only 26 grams
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat raching a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mimic tree rat weighting only 975 grams
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse weighting only 42 grams
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Zacatecan deer mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Delicate mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cape York rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Hispid hare
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Plains harvest mouse
- Insular vole
- Gray climbing mouse
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Broad-footed mole
- Geoxus valdivianus
Animals with the same weight as a Cape York rat
What other animals weight around 200 grams (0.44 lbs)?
- Northeast African mole-rat weighting 227 grams
- Spectral bat weighting 171 grams
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat weighting 175 grams
- Spectral tarsier weighting 168 grams
- Large vlei rat weighting 192 grams
- Desert pocket gopher weighting 206 grams
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse weighting 170 grams
- Mira climbing rat weighting 184 grams
- Moon-toothed degu weighting 200 grams
- Lesser mole-rat weighting 189 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cape York rat
Also reaching around 18.9 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Ruddy treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ladak pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Himalayan field rat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Washington ground squirrel gets as big as 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel gets as big as 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-footed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel gets as big as 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ricefield rat gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)