How many baby Eastern woodrats are in a litter?
A Eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 34 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 14 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Neotoma). An adult Eastern woodrat grows up to a size of 21.2 cm (0′ 9″).
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 woodrat (Neotoma floridana), also known as the Florida woodrat or bush rat is a pack rat native to the central and Eastern United States. It constructs large dens that may serve as nests for many generations and stores food in outlying caches for the winter. While widespread and not uncommon, it has declined or disappeared in several areas.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Eastern woodrat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Holochilus chacarius weighting only 204 grams
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Delany’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Big-eared swamp rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Monte gerbil mouse weighting only 18 grams
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat raching a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- European snow vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Dickey’s deer mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Maned rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cerradomys subflavus with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern woodrat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Black-backed jackal
- Forest dormouse
- Japanese mountain mole
- Chiriqui brown mouse
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
- Common punaré
- Savanna path shrew
- Bailey’s pocket mouse
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
- Lesser hamster-rat
Animals that get as old as a Eastern woodrat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Brown antechinus with 3 years
- Coast mole with 3 years
- Monito del monte with 3.17 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with 3.08 years
- Talas tuco-tuco with 3 years
- Eurasian water shrew with 3 years
- South African pouched mouse with 2.75 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with 2.67 years
- Common opossum with 2.67 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 2.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern woodrat
What other animals weight around 252 grams (0.56 lbs)?
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Gray slender loris weighting 254 grams
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel weighting 277 grams
- Particolored flying squirrel weighting 255 grams
- Chinese zokor weighting 256 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat weighting 220 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher weighting 250 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Guyanan spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Gambian sun squirrel weighting 248 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern woodrat
Also reaching around 21.2 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Ili pika gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Anthony’s woodrat gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s ground squirrel gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- North African hedgehog gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Koslov’s pika gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Afghan pika gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s cotton rat gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Basilan flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- European ground squirrel gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)