How many baby Little native mouses are in a litter?
A Little native mouse (Pseudomys delicatulus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 29 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pseudomys). An adult Little native mouse grows up to a size of 6.7 cm (0′ 3″).
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 little native mouse (Pseudomys delicatulus), also known as the delicate mouse, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land call this little creature Kijbuk (Reverend Peterson Nganjmirra, personal comment in Goodfellow, Fauna of Kakadu and the Top End,1993).It is found in Western Australia, the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Little native mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Pale gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Handleyomys intectus weighting only 60 grams
- Eremoryzomys weighting only 60 grams
- Kolan vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-haired rat weighting only 221 grams
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Abyssinian grass rat weighting only 73 grams
- Eastern rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- True’s vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Voalavoanala with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Little native mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse
- Northern brown bandicoot
- Southern grasshopper mouse
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Chestnut climbing mouse
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
- Chinese bamboo rat
- Southern bog lemming
- Desert mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Little native mouse
What other animals weight around 8 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Ridley’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 9 grams
- Madagascar sucker-footed bat weighting 9 grams
- Large-toothed shrew weighting 8 grams
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat weighting 9 grams
- Antillean ghost-faced bat weighting 8 grams
- Southern little yellow-eared bat weighting 8 grams
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat weighting 9 grams
- Canarian shrew weighting 7 grams
- Mexican small-eared shrew weighting 7 grams
- Southern pygmy mouse weighting 9 grams
Animals with the same size as a Little native mouse
Also reaching around 6.7 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Bicolored musk shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed musk shrew gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cyclops roundleaf bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Short-nosed harvest mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common vampire bat gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)