How many baby False water rats are in a litter?
A False water rat (Xeromys myoides) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Xeromys). An adult False water rat grows up to a size of 11.3 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.
The false water rat (Xeromys myoides) is a species of rodent native to waterways of Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
False water rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse weighting only 26 grams
- Pilliga mouse weighting only 10 grams
- Santa Cruz mouse weighting only 21 grams
- Southern bog lemming with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Highland brush mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bunny rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- San Lorenzo mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Charming climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Greater stick-nest rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with False water rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
- Mozambique thicket rat
- Desert woodrat
- Banded mongoose
- Mountain treeshrew
- Common echymipera
- Brown mouse lemur
- Brown bear
- American badger
- Pipistrellus mimus
Animals with the same weight as a False water rat
What other animals weight around 45 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Chaco grass mouse weighting 51 grams
- Elegant water shrew weighting 38 grams
- Plains rat weighting 53 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting 41 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Gould’s mouse weighting 49 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat weighting 46 grams
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum weighting 52 grams
- Star-nosed mole weighting 48 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole weighting 42 grams
Animals with the same size as a False water rat
Also reaching around 11.3 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Big-eared hopping mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden mouse gets as big as 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains rat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pen-tailed treeshrew gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)