How many baby Heath mouses are in a litter?
A Heath mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pseudomys). An adult Heath mouse grows up to a size of 13.7 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 heath mouse (Pseudomys shortridgei) is a species of mouse in the subfamily Murinae, the Old World rats and mice.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Heath mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Ural field mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Akodon sylvanus weighting only 39 grams
- Unalaska collared lemming with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Candango mouse weighting only 97 grams
- Wood lemming with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian striped mouse weighting only 18 grams
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gleaning mouse weighting only 35 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Heath mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Bailey’s pocket mouse
- Pygmy hog
- Guinea pig
- Geoxus valdivianus
- Brants’s climbing mouse
- Ungava collared lemming
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse
- Arctic lemming
- Namaqua dune mole-rat
Animals with the same weight as a Heath mouse
What other animals weight around 72 grams (0.16 lbs)?
- Acacia rat weighting 77 grams
- Northern red-sided opossum weighting 79 grams
- Edward’s swamp rat weighting 63 grams
- Nimba otter shrew weighting 69 grams
- Angular hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Andean mouse weighting 69 grams
- Andean swamp rat weighting 64 grams
- Zempoaltepec weighting 58 grams
- Guinea multimammate mouse weighting 64 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
Animals with the same size as a Heath mouse
Also reaching around 13.7 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed dasyure gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panama slender opossum gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western rock elephant shrew gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large mole gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Star-nosed mole gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dollman’s melomys gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)