How many baby Gansu pikas are in a litter?
A Gansu pika (Ochotona cansus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5.1 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Ochotonidae family (genus: Ochotona). An adult Gansu pika grows up to a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Gansu pika (Ochotona cansus) is a species of mammal in the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is endemic to China.
Other animals of the family Ochotonidae
Gansu pika is a member of the Ochotonidae, as are these animals:
- Tsing-ling pika weighting only 105 grams
- Sardinian pika raching a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Chinese red pika raching a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Plateau pika with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Turkestan red pika with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan pika with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine pika with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s pika with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Nubra pika raching a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Daurian pika with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gansu pika
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Kobe mole
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa
- Egyptian mongoose
- Neacomys tenuipes
- Nyika rock rat
- Taiwan field mouse
- Capybara
- Hairy harvest mouse
- Chiriqui brown mouse
Animals that get as old as a Gansu pika
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Cairo spiny mouse with 5 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with 6 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with 5.83 years
- Xerus erythropus with 6 years
- Bahamian hutia with 6 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- Aders’s duiker with 4 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with 4.83 years
- Evening bat with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gansu pika
What other animals weight around 69 grams (0.15 lbs)?
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat weighting 62 grams
- African wading rat weighting 62 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby weighting 67 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur weighting 70 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting 79 grams
- Bushveld gerbil weighting 73 grams
- Coast mole weighting 61 grams
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat weighting 78 grams
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
Animals with the same size as a Gansu pika
Also reaching around 13.4 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Short-haired water rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-tailed vole gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kowari gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Roman mole gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Durango chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)