How many baby Lesser tree mouses are in a litter?
A Lesser tree mouse (Chiruromys vates) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Chiruromys). An adult Lesser tree mouse grows up to a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 tree mouse (Chiruromys vates) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found only in Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Lesser tree mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Bryant’s woodrat weighting only 182 grams
- Creeping vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Giant white-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray leaf-eared mouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse weighting only 83 grams
- Typical striped grass mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Rwanda African mole-rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Charming thicket rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-necked mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lesser tree mouse
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Nilgiri tahr
- Tamaraw
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- Rhesus macaque
- Hoffmanns’s titi
- Rock cavy
- Eisentraut’s shrew
- Red forest duiker
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser tree mouse
What other animals weight around 45 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Chiapan deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse weighting 49 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat weighting 39 grams
- Northern grass mouse weighting 44 grams
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat weighting 50 grams
- Tawny deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Hopi chipmunk weighting 53 grams
- Brucepattersonius iheringi weighting 43 grams
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse weighting 43 grams
- Cape short-eared gerbil weighting 54 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lesser tree mouse
Also reaching around 10.9 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Golden mouse gets as big as 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Feather-tailed possum gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape elephant shrew gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky hopping mouse gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)