How many baby Hazel dormouses are in a litter?
A Hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Myoxidae family (genus: Muscardinus). An adult Hazel dormouse grows up to a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 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 hazel dormouse or common dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) is a small mammal and the only living species in the genus Muscardinus.
Other animals of the family Myoxidae
Hazel dormouse is a member of the Myoxidae, as are these animals:
- Graphiurus hueti with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Asian garden dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Desert dormouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Woodland dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Silent dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Forest dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hazel dormouse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
- Geata mouse shrew
- Field vole
- Delicate slender opossum
- Red-tailed chipmunk
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus
- Northern birch mouse
- Thomas’s pine vole
- Large Japanese field mouse
- Malayan weasel
Animals that get as old as a Hazel dormouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- American pika with 7 years
- Garden dormouse with 5.5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with 5 years
- Stoat with 7.08 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with 6 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with 5.67 years
- Arctic hare with 7 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with 5 years
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 5 years
- Indian gerbil with 7 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hazel dormouse
What other animals weight around 29 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Bibimys torresi weighting 28 grams
- Abrothrix andinus weighting 24 grams
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens weighting 25 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse weighting 27 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting 24 grams
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil weighting 26 grams
- Wood lemming weighting 30 grams
- Fawn hopping mouse weighting 34 grams
- Scolomys melanops weighting 26 grams
- Yucatan deer mouse weighting 27 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hazel dormouse
Also reaching around 7.6 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Shinto shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large slit-faced bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared gray shrew gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- New Holland mouse gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Egyptian free-tailed bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chacoan pygmy opossum gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese shrew mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern three-striped opossum gets as big as 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)