How many baby Least groove-toothed swamp rats are in a litter?
A Least groove-toothed swamp rat (Pelomys minor) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 253 grams (0.56 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pelomys). An adult Least groove-toothed swamp rat grows up to a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″).
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 least groove-toothed swamp rat (Pelomys minor) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia.Its natural habitat is moist savanna.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Least groove-toothed swamp rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Maxomys baeodon weighting only 159 grams
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse weighting only 75 grams
- Central pebble-mound mouse weighting only 12 grams
- Temminck’s striped mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden Oldfield mouse weighting only 88 grams
- False water rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small hocicudo weighting only 67 grams
- Lesser small-toothed rat raching a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pouched gerbil with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Least groove-toothed swamp rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Cape hare
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat
- Common echymipera
- Indian grey mongoose
- Djoongari
- Silvery marmoset
- Big-eared climbing rat
- Durango chipmunk
Animals with the same weight as a Least groove-toothed swamp rat
What other animals weight around 50 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Pen-tailed treeshrew weighting 42 grams
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat weighting 60 grams
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa weighting 52 grams
- Great fruit-eating bat weighting 59 grams
- Taiwan vole weighting 46 grams
- Highland brush mouse weighting 54 grams
- Underwood’s bonneted bat weighting 58 grams
- Large vesper mouse weighting 45 grams
- Handleyomys intectus weighting 60 grams
- Cape short-eared gerbil weighting 54 grams