How many baby Grassland mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Grassland mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys burtoni) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Melomys). An adult Grassland mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″).
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 grassland mosaic-tailed rat, or grassland melomys (Melomys burtoni), is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea. In Australia it is found along the northern coast from Kimberley to New South Wales. In the Top End it is often found in pandanus (P. spiralis). Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land call this animal Mulbu.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Grassland mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ivory Coast rat weighting only 52 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting only 49 grams
- Texas mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat weighting only 47 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting only 39 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gould’s mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Short-haired water rat weighting only 33 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Littledale’s whistling rat
- African black shrew
- White-tailed mongoose
- Asian particolored bat
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Western barred bandicoot
- Masked palm civet
- Indian grey mongoose
Animals with the same weight as a Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 71 grams (0.16 lbs)?
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat weighting 67 grams
- Big bonneted bat weighting 83 grams
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat weighting 85 grams
- California vole weighting 57 grams
- Small hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Marmoset rat weighting 70 grams
- Himalayan mole weighting 60 grams
- Townsend’s mole weighting 70 grams
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse weighting 75 grams
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat weighting 59 grams
Animals with the same size as a Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 10.8 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ash-grey mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forest dormouse gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican vole gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Monito del monte gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gleaning mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)