How many baby Highland brush mouses are in a litter?
A Highland brush mouse (Pogonomelomys sevia) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pogonomelomys). An adult Highland brush mouse grows up to a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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 highland brush mouse (Abeomelomys sevia), also known as the Menzies’ mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea, and is found in montane moss forests and in alpine zones over 2,000 m. It is the only species in the genus Abeomelomys, although it has been placed in Pogonomelomys in the past.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Highland brush mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Voalavoanala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Transbaikal zokor with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Woodland Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat raching a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Water vole (North America) with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Romanian hamster weighting only 97 grams
- Philippine forest rat weighting only 253 grams
- Indian gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Darling Downs hopping mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Mindanao montane forest mouse weighting only 34 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Highland brush mouse
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Ursine tree-kangaroo
- Malayan tapir
- Guadalupe fur seal
- Pig-tailed langur
- Natal long-fingered bat
- Indian rhinoceros
- Townsend’s mole
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Unadorned rock-wallaby
Animals with the same weight as a Highland brush mouse
What other animals weight around 54 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- California vole weighting 57 grams
- Arends’s golden mole weighting 52 grams
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 63 grams
- Bushveld elephant shrew weighting 48 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting 60 grams
- Coast mole weighting 61 grams
- Nephelomys albigularis weighting 60 grams
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse weighting 47 grams
- Rufous elephant shrew weighting 52 grams
- Euryoryzomys nitidus weighting 55 grams
Animals with the same size as a Highland brush mouse
Also reaching around 12.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Marajó short-tailed opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Prairie vole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky hopping mouse gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cave nectar bat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser tree mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)