How many baby Chestnut tree mouses are in a litter?
A Chestnut tree mouse (Pogonomys macrourus) 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 Chestnut tree 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 chestnut tree mouse (Pogonomys macrourus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Chestnut tree mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Temminck’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Spy hocicudo weighting only 81 grams
- Bibimys chacoensis weighting only 28 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse raching a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Indian desert jird with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed harvest mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser stick-nest rat weighting only 150 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Chestnut tree mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Masked palm civet
- Yellow mongoose
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Silvery greater galago
- Blanford’s rat
- Bastard big-footed mouse
- Tome’s spiny rat
- Smith’s red rock hare
- White-sided jackrabbit
- European hare
Animals that get as old as a Chestnut tree mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.42 years:
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Highland streaked tenrec with 2.58 years
- Southern bog lemming with 2.5 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 2.67 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with 2.83 years
- Cinnamon antechinus with 2 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 2.67 years
- Common shrew with 2 years
- Honey possum with 2 years
- Red hocicudo with 2.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut tree mouse
What other animals weight around 46 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Silent grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Dolorous grass mouse weighting 50 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat weighting 46 grams
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat weighting 44 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- Brucepattersonius iheringi weighting 43 grams
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting 41 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus weighting 49 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse weighting 49 grams
Animals with the same size as a Chestnut tree mouse
Also reaching around 11.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Florida mouse gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coruro gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Panamint chipmunk gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern collared lemming gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape golden mole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- African wading rat gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)