How many baby Himalayan field rats are in a litter?
A Himalayan field rat (Rattus nitidus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). An adult Himalayan field rat grows up to a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Himalayan field rat (Rattus nitidus), sometimes known as the white-footed Indo-Chinese rat, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It has a wide range, being found in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam, with introduced populations in Indonesia (widely), Palau, and the Philippines. A common species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Himalayan field rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sagebrush vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Oecomys superans weighting only 73 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Musser’s shrew mouse raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Rudd’s mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Euryoryzomys legatus weighting only 61 grams
- Major’s pine vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Himalayan field rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Hooper’s mouse
- Mexican volcano mouse
- Crab-eating fox
- Pygmy hog
- Desert kangaroo rat
- Long-eared hedgehog
- Western red-backed vole
- Beech marten
- Thylacine
- Flat-headed shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan field rat
What other animals weight around 100 grams (0.22 lbs)?
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 82 grams
- Big-eared swamp rat weighting 95 grams
- African groove-toothed rat weighting 111 grams
- Asian garden dormouse weighting 100 grams
- Red hocicudo weighting 82 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel weighting 104 grams
- Gray flying fox weighting 90 grams
- Silky Oldfield mouse weighting 115 grams
- Pale leaf-eared mouse weighting 102 grams
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse weighting 83 grams
Animals with the same size as a Himalayan field rat
Also reaching around 18.2 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Rough-haired golden mole gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Indochinese flying squirrel gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hugh’s hedgehog gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mohave ground squirrel gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Samar squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Komodo rat gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)