How many baby Grey dwarf hamsters are in a litter?
A Grey dwarf hamster (Cricetulus migratorius) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 12 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Cricetulus). An adult Grey dwarf hamster grows up to a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″).
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 grey dwarf hamster, grey hamster or migratory hamster (Cricetulus migratorius) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. Its range extends from Eastern Europe through the Middle East, Russia and Central Asia to Mongolia and western China. The grey dwarf hamster has grey fur and a head-body length ranging from 85 to 120 mm (3.3 to 4.7 in). The International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Grey dwarf hamster is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- New Guinean jumping mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Highveld gerbil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed harvest mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Polynesian rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ungava collared lemming with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Singing vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Subalpine woolly rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Plains rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blackish deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat raching a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals that share a litter size with Grey dwarf hamster
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
- Montane shrew
- Least weasel
- Kultarr
- Lorrain dormouse
- Southern red-backed vole
- Montane vole
- Royle’s mountain vole
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Natal multimammate mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Grey dwarf hamster
What other animals weight around 30 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Smith’s vole weighting 35 grams
- Schreber’s yellow bat weighting 26 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse weighting 30 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger weighting 26 grams
- Oligoryzomys griseolus weighting 25 grams
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 28 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting 26 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec weighting 35 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting 34 grams
- Western jumping mouse weighting 27 grams