How many baby Edible dormouses are in a litter?
A Edible dormouse (Glis glis) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 28 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Gliridae family (genus: Glis). An adult Edible dormouse grows up to a size of 16.7 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 edible dormouse or fat dormouse (Glis glis) is a large dormouse and the only living species in the genus Glis, found in most of western Europe. Its name comes from the Romans, who ate them as a delicacy.
Other animals of the family Gliridae
Edible dormouse is a member of the Gliridae, as are these animals:
- Chinese dormouse weighting only 31 grams
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Edible dormouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Montane vole
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa
- Kultarr
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Tiger quoll
- Small vesper mouse
- Northern red-backed vole
- Narrow-nosed planigale
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Red wolf
Animals that get as old as a Edible dormouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9 years:
- Central American agouti with 10 years
- Red-flanked duiker with 9.5 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat with 10 years
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Common ringtail possum with 8 years
- Bush dog with 10.33 years
- Southern tamandua with 9 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Northern tamandua with 9.5 years
- Black giant squirrel with 10.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Edible dormouse
What other animals weight around 128 grams (0.28 lbs)?
- Unexpected cotton rat weighting 140 grams
- Jaliscan cotton rat weighting 120 grams
- Australian swamp rat weighting 106 grams
- Southern pocket gopher weighting 126 grams
- Tete veld aethomys weighting 133 grams
- Southern African vlei rat weighting 114 grams
- Thomas’s bushbaby weighting 117 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat weighting 106 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 121 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
Animals with the same size as a Edible dormouse
Also reaching around 16.7 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Bunny rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large mole gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Banks flying fox gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ornate flying fox gets as big as 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser flying fox gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern African vlei rat gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)