How many baby Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (Mammelomys lanosus) usually gives birth to around 2 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-scaled mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″).
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-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (Mammelomys lanosus) 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-scaled mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Tien Shan red-backed vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse weighting only 34 grams
- Melanomys robustulus weighting only 53 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern chestnut mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lataste’s gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-haired hill rat weighting only 111 grams
- Long-tailed hopping mouse weighting only 100 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Crested servaline genet
- Pampas cat
- Southern pygmy mouse
- Bastard big-footed mouse
- Smith’s red rock hare
- African yellow bat
- Southern mountain cavy
- White-throated woodrat
- American shrew mole
- Southern African spiny mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 117 grams (0.26 lbs)?
- Leadbeater’s possum weighting 137 grams
- Lowland streaked tenrec weighting 129 grams
- Brants’s whistling rat weighting 129 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 120 grams
- Gorongoza gerbil weighting 119 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil weighting 95 grams
- Rough-haired golden mole weighting 112 grams
- Southern African vlei rat weighting 114 grams
- Kemp’s gerbil weighting 101 grams
- Bush rat weighting 124 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 16.1 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Rough-haired golden mole gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gilliard’s flying fox gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- California vole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser hamster-rat gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape York rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pale field rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)