How many baby Fulvous harvest mouses are in a litter?
A Fulvous harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Reithrodontomys). An adult Fulvous harvest mouse grows up to a size of 6.6 cm (0′ 3″).
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 fulvous harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys fulvescens) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Fulvous harvest mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Stephen’s woodrat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Large tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat raching a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sulawesi giant rat weighting only 325 grams
- Nayarit mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Microryzomys altissimus weighting only 13 grams
- Slender Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Striped field mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy giant rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Fulvous harvest mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Stella wood mouse
- Pygmy hog
- Mesquite mouse
- North African hedgehog
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Namaqua rock rat
- Yellow-throated marten
- Balochistan gerbil
- Large-eared tenrec
Animals with the same weight as a Fulvous harvest mouse
What other animals weight around 11 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Dwarf bonneted bat weighting 12 grams
- Miller’s long-tongued bat weighting 13 grams
- Silver fruit-eating bat weighting 12 grams
- Pouched gerbil weighting 10 grams
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat weighting 9 grams
- Tailed tailless bat weighting 10 grams
- Tacarcuna bat weighting 12 grams
- Honey possum weighting 9 grams
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat weighting 11 grams
- Negros shrew weighting 11 grams
Animals with the same size as a Fulvous harvest mouse
Also reaching around 6.6 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Laxmann’s shrew gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Winter white dwarf hamster gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater mouse-eared bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dark kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- African pygmy squirrel gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crowned shrew gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Azumi shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)