How many baby Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys lanosus) usually gives birth to around 2 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-scaled mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 15.7 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:
- Brants’s whistling rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mesquite mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eremoryzomys weighting only 60 grams
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat raching a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- One-toothed shrew mouse weighting only 21 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus weighting only 49 grams
- Hoffmann’s rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Least forest mouse weighting only 21 grams
- Bogotá grass mouse weighting only 13 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Cairo spiny mouse
- American badger
- Common rufous-nosed rat
- Mexican deer mouse
- Geoffroy’s cat
- Northern palm squirrel
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Buffy-headed marmoset
- Buettikofer’s shrew
- Amami rabbit
Animals with the same weight as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 117 grams (0.26 lbs)?
- Brooke’s squirrel weighting 114 grams
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse weighting 100 grams
- Bush rat weighting 124 grams
- Western dwarf squirrel weighting 120 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel weighting 104 grams
- Long-tailed hopping mouse weighting 100 grams
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 122 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 107 grams
- Golden hamster weighting 98 grams
- Broad-toothed mouse weighting 129 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 15.7 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Whiskered flying squirrel gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-haired rat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Asian garden dormouse gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Plains viscacha rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindoro striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s cotton rat gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Maxomys baeodon gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silky anteater gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Steppe pika gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)