How many baby Desert woodrats are in a litter?
A Desert woodrat (Neotoma lepida) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 33 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Neotoma). An adult Desert woodrat grows up to a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″).
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 woodrat (Neotoma lepida) is a species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Desert woodrat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Krebs’s fat mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tarabundí vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys flavescens with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Romanian hamster weighting only 97 grams
- Wood mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Andean rat weighting only 53 grams
- Golden mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Delany’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse weighting only 18 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Desert woodrat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Malayan tree rat
- Gray-bellied tree mouse
- Tiger
- Big-eared swamp rat
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Mountain degu
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Desert woodrat
What other animals weight around 144 grams (0.32 lbs)?
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 150 grams
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel weighting 118 grams
- Pygmy ringtail possum weighting 152 grams
- Luzon striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat weighting 134 grams
- Striped bush squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec weighting 160 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Striped treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Bush rat weighting 124 grams
Animals with the same size as a Desert woodrat
Also reaching around 16.3 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Oldfield white-bellied rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Collared pika gets as big as 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tropical ground squirrel gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brazilian squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Himalayan pika gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)