How many baby De Vis’s woolly rats are in a litter?
A De Vis’s woolly rat (Mallomys aroaensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Mallomys). An adult De Vis’s woolly rat grows up to a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 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.
De Vis’s woolly rat (Mallomys aroaensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
De Vis’s woolly rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat weighting only 186 grams
- Andean mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese striped hamster with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Winter white dwarf hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis weighting only 23 grams
- Fraternal hill rat weighting only 130 grams
- Transandinomys talamancae weighting only 54 grams
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Aegialomys galapagoensis becoming 1.67 years old
- Western water rat raching a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals that share a litter size with De Vis’s woolly rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lowland paca
- Cave nectar bat
- Moose
- Black flying fox
- Eastern bettong
- Galápagos fur seal
- European bison
- Rusty pipistrelle
- Zebra duiker
- Mashona mole-rat
Animals with the same weight as a De Vis’s woolly rat
What other animals weight around 1.66 kg (3.66 lbs)?
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Mountain cuscus usually reaching 1.82 kgs (4.01 lbs)
- Island fox usually reaching 1.92 kgs (4.23 lbs)
- Aquatic genet usually reaching 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
- Red giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Tree pangolin usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur usually reaching 1.62 kgs (3.57 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a De Vis’s woolly rat
Also reaching around 40.6 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Black dwarf porcupine gets as big as 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Fennec fox gets as big as 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black-footed cat gets as big as 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- Red giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Mongoose lemur gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Common spotted cuscus gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- American mink gets as big as 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- African brush-tailed porcupine gets as big as 43.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Common brushtail possum gets as big as 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)