How many baby Hairy-tailed bolo mouses are in a litter?
A Hairy-tailed bolo mouse (Bolomys 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 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Bolomys). An adult Hairy-tailed bolo mouse 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.
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 Muridae
Hairy-tailed bolo mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Oecomys bicolor with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern shrew mouse weighting only 16 grams
- Neacomys spinosus weighting only 19 grams
- White-throated grass mouse weighting only 42 grams
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cactus mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Percival’s spiny mouse weighting only 22 grams
- Plains harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian zokor with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Southern big-eared mouse
- African pygmy mouse
- Marsh rice rat
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Tondano rat
- European water vole
- Beach vole
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Woolly dormouse
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
What other animals weight around 39 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Wagner’s bonneted bat weighting 36 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure weighting 38 grams
- Royle’s mountain vole weighting 37 grams
- Greater noctule bat weighting 45 grams
- Painted spiny pocket mouse weighting 43 grams
- Lukolela swamp rat weighting 42 grams
- Sclater’s golden mole weighting 39 grams
- Pale spear-nosed bat weighting 36 grams
- Montane fish-eating rat weighting 39 grams
- Hispid hocicudo weighting 36 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
Also reaching around 14.5 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Uinta chipmunk gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao mountain rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)