How many baby Gray-bellied tree mouses are in a litter?
A Gray-bellied tree mouse (Pogonomys sylvestris) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pogonomys). An adult Gray-bellied tree mouse 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 gray-bellied tree mouse (Pogonomys sylvestris) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.It is consumed by the Kalam people of Papua New Guinea, and is hunted by women who look for it in its burrows.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Gray-bellied tree mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Alpine woolly rat weighting around 2.04 kilograms (4.5 lbs)
- Dalton’s mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Pearson’s chaco mouse weighting only 25 grams
- Long-tailed mountain rat weighting only 79 grams
- Nayarit mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Guadalcanal rat raching a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Oryzomys gorgasi weighting only 60 grams
- Stirton’s deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Plateau mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Nyika rock rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gray-bellied tree mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Maritime striped squirrel
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat
- White-footed vole
- Geoffroy’s tamarin
- Golden-headed lion tamarin
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
- Particolored flying squirrel
- Menzbier’s marmot
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
- Tiger
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-bellied tree mouse
What other animals weight around 41 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Taiwan vole weighting 46 grams
- Andean caenolestid weighting 47 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew weighting 42 grams
- Western mouse weighting 34 grams
- Macroscelides proboscideus weighting 38 grams
- Woodland thicket rat weighting 42 grams
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 41 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting 49 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole weighting 42 grams
- Taiwan vole weighting 46 grams
Animals with the same size as a Gray-bellied tree mouse
Also reaching around 10.8 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- South African pouched mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pyrenean desman gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater Egyptian gerbil gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western chestnut mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Triaenops rufus gets as big as 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese shrew mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- European mole gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)