How many baby Large treeshrews are in a litter?
A Large treeshrew (Tupaia tana) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 11 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 9.7 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Tupaiidae family (genus: Tupaia). An adult Large treeshrew grows up to a size of 18.5 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 large treeshrew (Tupaia tana) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae. It is native to Sumatra and adjacent small islands, as well as in the lowlands and hills of Borneo.
Other animals of the family Tupaiidae
Large treeshrew is a member of the Tupaiidae, as are these animals:
- Painted treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Common treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Horsfield’s treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern treeshrew becoming 10 years old
- Nicobar treeshrew weighting only 170 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ruddy treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Madras treeshrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Striped treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Slender treeshrew weighting only 112 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Large treeshrew
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Crested porcupine
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Smith’s bush squirrel
- Big-eared climbing rat
- Southern yellow bat
- California red tree mouse
- Black-tufted marmoset
- Lusitanian pine vole
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Fennec fox
Animals with the same weight as a Large treeshrew
What other animals weight around 182 grams (0.4 lbs)?
- Dusky field rat weighting 157 grams
- Colombian weasel weighting 211 grams
- Reddish tuco-tuco weighting 173 grams
- Mottled tuco-tuco weighting 192 grams
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat weighting 179 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat weighting 167 grams
- Hairless bat weighting 169 grams
- Pearson’s tuco-tuco weighting 212 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew weighting 170 grams
- Southeastern pocket gopher weighting 201 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large treeshrew
Also reaching around 18.5 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Guyenne spiny rat gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Grey-bellied squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Whiskered flying squirrel gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cerradomys subflavus gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog gets as big as 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Luzon striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindoro black rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Taiga vole gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)