How many baby Goldman’s woodrats are in a litter?
A Goldman’s woodrat (Neotoma goldmani) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 13 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Neotoma). An adult Goldman’s woodrat grows up to a size of 14.5 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.
Goldman’s woodrat (Neotoma goldmani) is a rodent species in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico throughout the Mexican Plateau, stretching from Southeast Chihuahua to South San Luis Potosi and North Queretaro. The plateau is an average 5,988 ft. above sea level and covers a land area of 232,388 sq. miles.N. goldmani is restricted to rocky and desert habitats and shelters itself in crevices. It exhibits a karyotype that qualifies it as a more primitive species than the N. mexicana.It is currently under no immediate threat, but has experienced a decrease in population due to habitat changes occurring throughout the Mexican Plateau area, a very highly populated area, which includes the states of Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Jalisco, and Mexico.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Goldman’s woodrat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Hoary bamboo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser bandicoot rat with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Target rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese bamboo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Natal multimammate mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Handleyomys chapmani weighting only 49 grams
- Jico deer mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Southern African spiny mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Transcaucasian mole vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pseudoryzomys weighting only 45 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Goldman’s woodrat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Plains viscacha
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Flores woolly bat
- Canyon bat
- Alpaca
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo
- Aberdare mole shrew
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Rufous hare-wallaby
Animals with the same weight as a Goldman’s woodrat
What other animals weight around 198 grams (0.44 lbs)?
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weighting 199 grams
- Black-striped squirrel weighting 209 grams
- Dusky-footed woodrat weighting 219 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat weighting 236 grams
- Long-tailed weasel weighting 191 grams
- Brazilian squirrel weighting 177 grams
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat weighting 172 grams
- Large treeshrew weighting 182 grams
- Painted treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco weighting 210 grams
Animals with the same size as a Goldman’s woodrat
Also reaching around 14.5 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray slender opossum gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cave nectar bat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Townsend’s vole gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan pika gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao mountain rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)