How many baby Highland brush mouses are in a litter?
A Highland brush mouse (Abeomelomys sevia) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 517 grams (1.14 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Abeomelomys). 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:
- Midday jird with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Zygodontomys brunneus weighting only 75 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse weighting only 35 grams
- Earless water rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Euryoryzomys legatus weighting only 61 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern chestnut mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ricefield rat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Desert woodrat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat weighting only 47 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Highland brush mouse
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Atlantic titi
- Western red colobus
- Ryukyu flying fox
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Ground cuscus
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Blue monkey
- Taiwan vole
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Highland brush mouse
What other animals weight around 54 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- Northern collared lemming weighting 58 grams
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli weighting 62 grams
- Northern water rat weighting 54 grams
- Comoro rousette weighting 45 grams
- Emin’s gerbil weighting 52 grams
- Brown mouse lemur weighting 48 grams
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole weighting 56 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure weighting 52 grams
- Indian roundleaf bat weighting 44 grams
- Eremoryzomys weighting 60 grams
Animals with the same size as a Highland brush mouse
Also reaching around 12.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Greater spear-nosed bat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-footed water rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pocock’s highland rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western water rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)