How many baby Edible dormouses are in a litter?
A Edible dormouse (Myoxus 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 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Myoxidae family (genus: Myoxus). 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 Myoxidae
Edible dormouse is a member of the Myoxidae, as are these animals:
- Chinese dormouse weighting only 31 grams
- Asian garden dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hazel dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rock dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Graphiurus hueti with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert dormouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Edible dormouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Water vole (North America)
- Grey dwarf hamster
- Southern red-backed vole
- Eversmann’s hamster
- Alston’s cotton rat
- Pygmy rabbit
- Soft-furred rat
- Douglas squirrel
- Narrow-nosed planigale
- Persian jird
Animals that get as old as a Edible dormouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9 years:
- Red acouchi with 10 years
- Cape gray mongoose with 8.67 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 8.5 years
- Common kusimanse with 9 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with 10 years
- Dice’s cottontail with 9 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with 10.5 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Long-footed potoroo with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Edible dormouse
What other animals weight around 128 grams (0.28 lbs)?
- Talas tuco-tuco weighting 141 grams
- Amazonian marsh rat weighting 120 grams
- Guam flying fox weighting 153 grams
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat weighting 116 grams
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat weighting 131 grams
- Guinean gerbil weighting 103 grams
- Southern three-striped opossum weighting 112 grams
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel weighting 109 grams
- Dian’s tarsier weighting 110 grams
- Summit rat weighting 107 grams
Animals with the same size as a Edible dormouse
Also reaching around 16.7 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Siberian chipmunk gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Caledonia flying fox gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Papuan bandicoot gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern red-sided opossum gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)