How many baby Large vlei rats are in a litter?
A Large vlei rat (Otomys maximus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 13 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 7.1 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Otomys). An adult Large vlei rat grows up to a size of 18.2 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 vlei rat (Otomys maximus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Namibia, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and swamps.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Large vlei rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Big-headed African mole-rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat weighting only 67 grams
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse weighting only 30 grams
- Macmillan’s thicket rat weighting only 37 grams
- Alpine pine vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Oecomys rex weighting only 73 grams
- Balkan snow vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Blackish grass mouse weighting only 19 grams
- Rufous-bellied bolo mouse weighting only 32 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Large vlei rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Plains rat
- Malayan field rat
- Cape golden mole
- Neotropical otter
- Zacatecan deer mouse
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat
- Tibetan sand fox
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse
- Handleyomys melanotis
Animals with the same weight as a Large vlei rat
What other animals weight around 192 grams (0.42 lbs)?
- Mzab gundi weighting 194 grams
- Brandt’s hedgehog weighting 213 grams
- Lesser bandicoot rat weighting 227 grams
- Speke’s pectinator weighting 169 grams
- Eastern rat weighting 230 grams
- Dusky-footed woodrat weighting 219 grams
- Annandale’s rat weighting 197 grams
- Bridges’s degu weighting 162 grams
- Bryant’s woodrat weighting 182 grams
- Large New Guinea spiny rat weighting 194 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large vlei rat
Also reaching around 18.2 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Central Texas pocket gopher gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush rat gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Island mouse gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Vinogradov’s jird gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Kowari gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Collared pika gets as big as 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)