How many baby Hairy-tailed bolo mouses are in a litter?
A Hairy-tailed bolo mouse (Necromys lasiurus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cricetidae family (genus: Necromys). An adult Hairy-tailed bolo mouse grows up to a size of 14.4 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.
The hairy-tailed bolo mouse or hairy-tailed akodont (Necromys lasiurus) is a South American rodent species of the family Cricetidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay.
Other animals of the family Cricetidae
Hairy-tailed bolo mouse is a member of the Cricetidae, as are these animals:
- Sooretamys weighting only 120 grams
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse weighting only 17 grams
- Nectomys rattus weighting only 248 grams
- Handleyomys intectus weighting only 60 grams
- Sikkim mountain vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Abrothrix lanosus weighting only 27 grams
- Smith’s vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Olive grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Western red-backed vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Thomas’s pine vole
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat
- Akodon azarae
- Utah prairie dog
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel
- Turkestan rat
- Indian hedgehog
- Eastern heather vole
- Western pygmy possum
- Hoary marmot
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
What other animals weight around 39 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Himalayan striped squirrel weighting 45 grams
- Guatemalan deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Cyclops roundleaf bat weighting 32 grams
- Day’s grass mouse weighting 32 grams
- Montane vole weighting 42 grams
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat weighting 33 grams
- Moupin pika weighting 35 grams
- San José Island kangaroo rat weighting 38 grams
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil weighting 35 grams
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat weighting 36 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
Also reaching around 14.4 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Short-tailed hopping mouse gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Edible dormouse gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guam flying fox gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Altai mole gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dian’s tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-striped dasyure gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao mountain rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gaoligong pika gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser hamster-rat gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)