How many baby Eastern chestnut mouses are in a litter?
A Eastern chestnut mouse (Pseudomys gracilicaudatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 27 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pseudomys). An adult Eastern chestnut mouse grows up to a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 eastern chestnut mouse (Pseudomys gracilicaudatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Australia, along the eastern coast from northern Queensland and into New South Wales as far as Jervis Bay.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Eastern chestnut mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Natal multimammate mouse weighting only 62 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting only 60 grams
- Nectomys squamipes with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ryukyu spiny rat weighting only 84 grams
- Highland brush mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northeast African mole-rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Large vlei rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brown rat with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Euryoryzomys lamia weighting only 60 grams
- Savi’s pine vole weighting only 20 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern chestnut mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Pronghorn
- Florida mouse
- Japanese hare
- Brown hyena
- Slender rat
- European snow vole
- Gray tree rat
- Tome’s spiny rat
- Iberian lynx
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern chestnut mouse
What other animals weight around 79 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- Long-nosed hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Small Japanese mole weighting 65 grams
- Atherton antechinus weighting 76 grams
- Siskiyou chipmunk weighting 75 grams
- Greater spear-nosed bat weighting 91 grams
- California kangaroo rat weighting 85 grams
- Sonoma chipmunk weighting 75 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette weighting 74 grams
- Gray flying fox weighting 90 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern chestnut mouse
Also reaching around 10.9 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western heather vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red tree vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater big-footed mouse gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hottentot golden mole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sulawesi rousette gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)