How many baby Dusky field rats are in a litter?
A Dusky field rat (Rattus sordidus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). An adult Dusky field rat grows up to a size of 15.9 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 dusky field rat (Rattus sordidus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. In Australia it is found in northern Queensland and along the east coast as far south as Shoalwater Bay.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Dusky field rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Lesser stick-nest rat weighting only 150 grams
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s climbing rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine woolly rat weighting around 2.04 kilograms (4.5 lbs)
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat weighting only 47 grams
- Tamaulipan woodrat weighting only 198 grams
- Savi’s pine vole weighting only 20 grams
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse weighting only 41 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Dusky field rat
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Eversmann’s hamster
- Pygmy rabbit
- Northern red-backed vole
- Daurian pika
- Coypu
- Dusky slender opossum
- Oligoryzomys flavescens
- Mongolian gerbil
- Water vole (North America)
- Western quoll
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky field rat
What other animals weight around 157 grams (0.35 lbs)?
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby weighting 148 grams
- Kintampo rope squirrel weighting 186 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 144 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 150 grams
- Gray tree rat weighting 150 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat weighting 168 grams
- Spectral tarsier weighting 166 grams
- Val’s gundi weighting 174 grams
- Guianan spear-nosed bat weighting 134 grams
Animals with the same size as a Dusky field rat
Also reaching around 15.9 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Edible dormouse gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao mountain rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Temotu flying fox gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nimba otter shrew gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Marajó short-tailed opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s cotton rat gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-furred dasyure gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)