How many baby Golden mouses are in a litter?
A Golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 29 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Ochrotomys). An adult Golden mouse grows up to a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″).
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 golden mouse (Ochrotomys nuttalli) is a species of New World mouse. It is usually 5–8 inches (12–25 cm) in body length, and has a soft pelage that ranges from golden-brownish to burnt orange in color. The genus name comes from the Greek words, “ochre”, a yellow or brown earth pigment, and “mys,” meaning mouse.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Golden mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Large bamboo rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Beady-eyed mouse weighting only 77 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse weighting only 21 grams
- Melanomys robustulus weighting only 53 grams
- Insular vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Texas mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Cloud forest grass mouse weighting only 39 grams
- Rajah spiny rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Golden mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Greenish yellow bat
- San Lorenzo mouse
- Bushy-tailed jird
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Cairo spiny mouse
- Durango chipmunk
- Serval
- African marsh rat
Animals that get as old as a Golden mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.5 years:
- Sandstone false antechinus with 3 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with 2.83 years
- Ooldea dunnart with 3 years
- Broad-footed mole with 3 years
- Fawn antechinus with 2.25 years
- Dusky antechinus with 2 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with 2.42 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with 2.67 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 3 years
- Typical striped grass mouse with 2.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Golden mouse
What other animals weight around 22 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Long-tailed pocket mouse weighting 20 grams
- New Guinea free-tailed bat weighting 26 grams
- Eloquent horseshoe bat weighting 19 grams
- Wood sprite gracile opossum weighting 18 grams
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat weighting 25 grams
- Ugandan musk shrew weighting 23 grams
- Beaded wood mouse weighting 22 grams
- Akodon budini weighting 26 grams
- Woolly dormouse weighting 25 grams
- Akodon albiventer weighting 26 grams
Animals with the same size as a Golden mouse
Also reaching around 9.2 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Cozumel harvest mouse gets as big as 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Agile gracile opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater Egyptian gerbil gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grant’s golden mole gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern hopping mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern grasshopper mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)