How many baby Desert dormouses are in a litter?
A Desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Myoxidae family (genus: Selevinia). An adult Desert dormouse grows up to a size of 8.4 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 desert dormouse (Selevinia betpakdalaensis) is a species of rodent in the dormouse family, Gliridae. This species was formerly placed in its own family, Seleviniidae, but it is now considered to be a dormouse, monotypic within the genus Selevinia.It is endemic to Kazakhstan.
Other animals of the family Myoxidae
Desert dormouse is a member of the Myoxidae, as are these animals:
- Kellen’s dormouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Forest dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hazel dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese dormouse weighting only 31 grams
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Desert dormouse
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Maximowicz’s vole
- Eurasian water shrew
- Seven-banded armadillo
- Raccoon dog
- Chinese striped hamster
- Bornean bearded pig
- Steppe mouse
- Mindoro black rat
- Eligmodontia typus
Animals with the same weight as a Desert dormouse
What other animals weight around 17 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Pocketed free-tailed bat weighting 15 grams
- White-bellied yellow bat weighting 20 grams
- Parnell’s mustached bat weighting 19 grams
- Eurasian water shrew weighting 15 grams
- Niobe’s shrew weighting 16 grams
- Mexican harvest mouse weighting 15 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat weighting 17 grams
- Dobson’s horseshoe bat weighting 19 grams
- Fraser’s musk shrew weighting 17 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat weighting 15 grams
Animals with the same size as a Desert dormouse
Also reaching around 8.4 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- San Joaquin pocket mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Black-eared squirrel gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cotton mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-sided opossum gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s gerbil gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwan field mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-sided opossum gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)