How many baby Giant naked-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Giant naked-tailed rat (Uromys anak) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 20 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Uromys). An adult Giant naked-tailed rat grows up to a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″).
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 giant naked-tailed rat (Uromys anak) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It lives in tropical forests, wetlands, and in degraded forests.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Giant naked-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Small-toothed harvest mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Marsh rice rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mearns’s pouched mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat weighting only 186 grams
- White-ankled mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Aztec mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hatt’s vesper rat weighting only 36 grams
- Soft grass mouse weighting only 30 grams
- Large vlei rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Giant naked-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- El Carrizo deer mouse
- Western pygmy possum
- Indian desert jird
- Greater white-toothed shrew
- Utah prairie dog
- Pygmy gerbil
- Rock squirrel
- Gunnison’s prairie dog
- Alexander’s kusimanse
- Little pocket mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Giant naked-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 745 grams (1.64 lbs)?
- Cape dune mole-rat weighting 804 grams
- Striped polecat weighting 812 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 642 grams
- Forest giant squirrel weighting 630 grams
- Arctic ground squirrel weighting 747 grams
- American marten weighting 878 grams
- Bengal mongoose weighting 741 grams
- Guinea pig weighting 728 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting 675 grams
- European hedgehog weighting 789 grams
Animals with the same size as a Giant naked-tailed rat
Also reaching around 31 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- African striped weasel gets as big as 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-faced saki gets as big as 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Northern viscacha gets as big as 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Guianan squirrel monkey gets as big as 32.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black giant squirrel gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Spotted linsang gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum gets as big as 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ring-tailed cat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Coppery titi gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)