How many baby Edwards’s long-tailed giant rats are in a litter?
A Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys edwardsi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 158 grams (0.35 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Leopoldamys). An adult Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat grows up to a size of 11.6 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.
Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys edwardsi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Central pebble-mound mouse weighting only 12 grams
- Tamaulipan woodrat weighting only 198 grams
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse weighting only 54 grams
- Balkan snow vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Deroo’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Andean mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Afghan vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Olive grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Anoa
- Collared mangabey
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
- Ryukyu flying fox
- Water chevrotain
- Western red colobus
- Little forest bat
- Masoala fork-marked lemur
- Moose
- Woermann’s bat
Animals with the same weight as a Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
What other animals weight around 304 grams (0.67 lbs)?
- Grey-bellied squirrel weighting 265 grams
- White-headed marmoset weighting 342 grams
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat weighting 296 grams
- Pteropus temmincki weighting 250 grams
- Unstriped ground squirrel weighting 317 grams
- Tawny tuco-tuco weighting 280 grams
- Japanese squirrel weighting 264 grams
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel weighting 272 grams
- Kinabalu squirrel weighting 324 grams
Animals with the same size as a Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
Also reaching around 11.6 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- White-footed vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sculptor squirrel gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pousargues African fat mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Akodon spegazzinii gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)