How many baby Large mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Large mosaic-tailed rat (Mammelomys rattoides) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 167 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Mammelomys). An adult Large mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″).
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 large mosaic-tailed rat (Mammelomys rattoides) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Large mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Steppe lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Soft grass mouse weighting only 30 grams
- Venezuelan climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Beady-eyed mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Stein’s rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Emin’s gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sooretamys weighting only 100 grams
- Dollman’s melomys raching a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting only 49 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Large mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Great fruit-eating bat
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Red-eared guenon
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
- Royal antelope
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Bactrian camel
- Typical vlei rat
- Darling’s horseshoe bat
- Sharpe’s grysbok
Animals with the same weight as a Large mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 209 grams (0.46 lbs)?
- Greedy olalla rat weighting 206 grams
- Salta tuco-tuco weighting 230 grams
- Mountain weasel weighting 180 grams
- Northern treeshrew weighting 200 grams
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Dusky-footed woodrat weighting 219 grams
- Euphrates jerboa weighting 232 grams
- White-tailed antsangy weighting 205 grams
- Dassie rat weighting 224 grams
- Golden angwantibo weighting 235 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 20.4 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Busuanga squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ceram fruit bat gets as big as 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Val’s gundi gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black jackrabbit gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Reddish tuco-tuco gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small flying fox gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)