How many baby Common punarés are in a litter?
A Common punaré (Thrichomys apereoides) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 96 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 21 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Echimyidae family (genus: Thrichomys). An adult Common punaré grows up to a size of 18.4 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 common punaré, Thrichomys apereoides, is a species of spiny rat endemic to Brazil.
Other animals of the family Echimyidae
Common punaré is a member of the Echimyidae, as are these animals:
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Speckled spiny tree-rat weighting only 283 grams
- Boyacá spiny rat weighting only 284 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat weighting only 243 grams
- Montane bamboo rat weighting only 382 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat weighting only 445 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-footed spiny rat weighting only 284 grams
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed spiny rat weighting only 285 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Common punaré
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Red rock rat
- Handleyomys melanotis
- Swamp musk shrew
- Collared pika
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Northern three-toed jerboa
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat
- Rajah spiny rat
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Common punaré
What other animals weight around 298 grams (0.66 lbs)?
- Sucre spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Mechow’s mole-rat weighting 272 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat weighting 260 grams
- Lesser flying fox weighting 296 grams
- San Martín Island woodrat weighting 240 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Philippine forest rat weighting 253 grams
- Andean mountain cavy weighting 255 grams
- White-winged flying fox weighting 343 grams