How many baby Coxing’s white-bellied rats are in a litter?
A Coxing’s white-bellied rat (Niviventer coxingi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 499 grams (1.1 lbs) and measure 2.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Niviventer). An adult Coxing’s white-bellied rat grows up to a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Coxing’s white-bellied rat (Niviventer coninga) is a rodent in the family Muridae. The species was first described by Robert Swinhoe in 1864. It is found only in Taiwan.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Coxing’s white-bellied rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Highveld gerbil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bismarck giant rat weighting only 612 grams
- Sikkim rat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian gerbil with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Silver mountain vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Grant’s rock mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Gray tree rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Caucasian snow vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Scolomys ucayalensis weighting only 26 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Coxing’s white-bellied rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Blanford’s rat
- Plateau mouse
- Mexican small-eared shrew
- Crested servaline genet
- Wolverine
- Mozambique thicket rat
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- Baird’s pocket gopher
- Woodland vole
- North African elephant shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Coxing’s white-bellied rat
What other animals weight around 80 grams (0.18 lbs)?
- Big deer mouse weighting 71 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat weighting 75 grams
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat weighting 85 grams
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat weighting 69 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting 79 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby weighting 66 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting 79 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil weighting 95 grams
- Bunny rat weighting 79 grams
Animals with the same size as a Coxing’s white-bellied rat
Also reaching around 13 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Greater tree mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern red-backed vole gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Colorado chipmunk gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)