How many baby Chiriqui harvest mouses are in a litter?
A Chiriqui harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys creper) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Reithrodontomys). An adult Chiriqui harvest mouse grows up to a size of 8.9 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 Chiriqui harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys creper) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Costa Rica and Panama.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Chiriqui harvest mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- African grass rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Louise’s spiny mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut climbing mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern African spiny mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Squirrel-toothed rat weighting only 511 grams
- North African gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- African marsh rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bolivian big-eared mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Chiriqui harvest mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- San Lorenzo mouse
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat
- Maritime striped squirrel
- Golden bandicoot
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat
- Stripe-necked mongoose
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Southern brown bandicoot
- Geoffroy’s tamarin
- Javanese flying squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Chiriqui harvest mouse
What other animals weight around 22 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Olive grass mouse weighting 26 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse weighting 24 grams
- Parnell’s mustached bat weighting 19 grams
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis weighting 23 grams
- Monito del monte weighting 25 grams
- Akodon azarae weighting 25 grams
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat weighting 19 grams
- Davies’s big-eared bat weighting 18 grams
- Arnhem leaf-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Woodland jumping mouse weighting 22 grams
Animals with the same size as a Chiriqui harvest mouse
Also reaching around 8.9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malayan water shrew gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sandy inland mouse gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arctic shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cactus mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Steppe lemming gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-clawed shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hazel dormouse gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese water shrew gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)