How many baby Lesser bamboo rats are in a litter?
A Lesser bamboo rat (Cannomys badius) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 41 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 177 grams (0.39 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Cannomys). An adult Lesser bamboo rat grows up to a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 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 lesser bamboo rat (Cannomys badius) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is monotypic within the genus Cannomys. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Lesser bamboo rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Andean mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- California vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Cursor grass mouse weighting only 39 grams
- Slender rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Emperor rat weighting around 1 kilograms (2.2 lbs)
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse weighting only 41 grams
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse weighting only 26 grams
- Buffoon striped grass mouse weighting only 26 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx weighting only 50 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Lesser bamboo rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Slender rat
- Hinde’s rock rat
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse
- Rüppell’s fox
- Ord’s kangaroo rat
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Lion
- Little desert pocket mouse
- Rock hyrax
Animals that get as old as a Lesser bamboo rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.67 years:
- Red-tailed phascogale with 3 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with 3.17 years
- Allen’s big-eared bat with 3.17 years
- Cape mole-rat with 3 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 4 years
- Arctic lemming with 3.75 years
- Great gerbil with 4 years
- Coast mole with 3 years
- Star-nosed mole with 3 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 3.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser bamboo rat
What other animals weight around 472 grams (1.04 lbs)?
- Long-tailed chinchilla weighting 480 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting 439 grams
- Giant golden mole weighting 440 grams
- Russian desman weighting 420 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur weighting 447 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting 474 grams
- Black-mantled tamarin weighting 450 grams
- Social tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Musky rat-kangaroo weighting 535 grams
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting 499 grams