How many baby Eastern rats are in a litter?
A Eastern rat (Rattus mordax) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). An adult Eastern rat grows up to a size of 17.3 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 eastern rat (Rattus mordax) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Eastern rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Arnhem Land rock rat weighting only 94 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser bamboo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat weighting only 42 grams
- False canyon mouse raching a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Djoongari with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pale leaf-eared mouse weighting only 102 grams
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Sooretamys weighting only 100 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat raching a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Horsfield’s treeshrew
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Peters’s musk shrew
- Slender mongoose
- Golden-headed lion tamarin
- Niobe’s shrew
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse
- Feathertail glider
- False water rat
- Highveld gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern rat
What other animals weight around 230 grams (0.51 lbs)?
- Lesser bandicoot rat weighting 227 grams
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel weighting 207 grams
- Long-tailed spiny rat weighting 205 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat weighting 220 grams
- Rodrigues flying fox weighting 256 grams
- Northeast African mole-rat weighting 227 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher weighting 250 grams
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting 201 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat weighting 215 grams
- Black-striped squirrel weighting 209 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern rat
Also reaching around 17.3 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Allen’s chipmunk gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Val’s gundi gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Washington ground squirrel gets as big as 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Temotu flying fox gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Edible dormouse gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pteropus gilliardi gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sikkim rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)