How many baby Large mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Large mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rattoides) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Melomys). 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:
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Long-clawed mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Florida mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Angoni vlei rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Persian jird with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Rakali with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Flat-headed vole with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Koford’s grass mouse weighting only 29 grams
- Short-tailed hopping mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus weighting only 25 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Large mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Indian hog deer
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
- African brush-tailed porcupine
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
- Black-eared flying fox
- Typical vlei rat
- Red-necked wallaby
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
- White-bellied duiker
- Lar gibbon
Animals with the same weight as a Large mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 210 grams (0.46 lbs)?
- Long-tailed spiny rat weighting 205 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat weighting 226 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat weighting 243 grams
- White-throated woodrat weighting 208 grams
- Strong tuco-tuco weighting 233 grams
- Sonoran woodrat weighting 227 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat weighting 201 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 grams
- Four-striped ground squirrel weighting 180 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 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:
- Colombian weasel gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mindoro striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guadalcanal rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Palawan spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Eastern rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Guinean rat gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guyenne spiny rat gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tropical ground squirrel gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian hedgehog gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Temotu flying fox gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)