How many baby Garden dormouses are in a litter?
A Garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) 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 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Myoxidae family (genus: Eliomys). An adult Garden dormouse grows up to a size of 13.8 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 garden dormouse (Eliomys quercinus) is a rodent in the dormouse family.
Other animals of the family Myoxidae
Garden dormouse is a member of the Myoxidae, as are these animals:
- Japanese dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Forest dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Graphiurus hueti with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Woodland dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese dormouse weighting only 31 grams
- Christy’s dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hazel dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Garden dormouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Alston’s cotton rat
- Siberian large-toothed shrew
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse
- Western jumping mouse
- Black-capped marmot
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart
- Kowari
- Alpine shrew
- Long-tailed shrew
- Northern grass mouse
Animals that get as old as a Garden dormouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.5 years:
- African striped weasel with 5.17 years
- Southeastern myotis with 6 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with 5 years
- Sundevall’s jird with 5.58 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 5.5 years
- Evening bat with 5 years
- Silky pocket mouse with 5 years
- Numbat with 6 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with 4.75 years
- Bahamian hutia with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Garden dormouse
What other animals weight around 115 grams (0.25 lbs)?
- Whiskered flying squirrel weighting 108 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher weighting 136 grams
- Angoni vlei rat weighting 100 grams
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum weighting 93 grams
- Arnhem Land rock rat weighting 94 grams
- Highland streaked tenrec weighting 102 grams
- Tete veld aethomys weighting 133 grams
- European water vole weighting 120 grams
- Lesser ricefield rat weighting 104 grams
- Roman mole weighting 92 grams
Animals with the same size as a Garden dormouse
Also reaching around 13.8 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern chipmunk gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiga vole gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Senegal bushbaby gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mohave ground squirrel gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Silvery mole-rat gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)