How many baby Champion’s tree mouses are in a litter?
A Champion’s tree mouse (Pogonomys championi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pogonomys). An adult Champion’s tree mouse grows up to a size of 12.1 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.
Champion’s tree mouse (Pogonomys championi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Champion’s tree mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Bastard big-footed mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sundevall’s jird with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Krebs’s fat mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mindoro black rat with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Guatemalan deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern red-backed vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Balkan snow vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Deroo’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Akodon affinis weighting only 24 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Champion’s tree mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Giant white-tailed rat
- Japanese hare
- Desert bandicoot
- Red-legged sun squirrel
- Little desert pocket mouse
- Antelope jackrabbit
- Moss-forest rat
- Aardwolf
- Ord’s kangaroo rat
- Particolored flying squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Champion’s tree mouse
What other animals weight around 50 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Ruwenzori thicket rat weighting 41 grams
- Red-nosed mouse weighting 46 grams
- Antillean fruit-eating bat weighting 45 grams
- Jentink’s flying squirrel weighting 56 grams
- Melanomys robustulus weighting 53 grams
- Hairy-tailed mole weighting 51 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus weighting 49 grams
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse weighting 46 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse weighting 51 grams
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse weighting 54 grams
Animals with the same size as a Champion’s tree mouse
Also reaching around 12.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Père David’s mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western rock elephant shrew gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coruro gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spotted ground squirrel gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Goldman’s woodrat gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern three-striped opossum gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)