How many baby Long-footed treeshrews are in a litter?
A Long-footed treeshrew (Tupaia longipes) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 9.7 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Tupaiidae family (genus: Tupaia). An adult Long-footed treeshrew grows up to a size of 18.5 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 long-footed treeshrew (Tupaia longipes) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae.It is endemic to Borneo and threatened due to deforestation and degradation of habitat.
Other animals of the family Tupaiidae
Long-footed treeshrew is a member of the Tupaiidae, as are these animals:
- Striped treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Mountain treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Common treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern treeshrew becoming 10 years old
- Horsfield’s treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ruddy treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Slender treeshrew weighting only 112 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew weighting only 170 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew becoming 2.67 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Long-footed treeshrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Javan surili
- Lesser tree mouse
- Broom hare
- Cuban solenodon
- Fulvus roundleaf bat
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
- Whiptail wallaby
- Sun bear
- Burchell’s zebra
- Tufted capuchin
Animals that get as old as a Long-footed treeshrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Weasel sportive lemur with 12 years
- Cape fox with 10 years
- Eastern bettong with 11.75 years
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with 14 years
- Common spotted cuscus with 11 years
- Crab-eating fox with 11.5 years
- Agile wallaby with 12 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Four-horned antelope with 10.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Long-footed treeshrew
What other animals weight around 168 grams (0.37 lbs)?
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel weighting 175 grams
- Allen’s cotton rat weighting 174 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting 152 grams
- Hinde’s rock rat weighting 141 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew weighting 170 grams
- Siberian flying squirrel weighting 143 grams
- Cape mole-rat weighting 189 grams
- Short-furred dasyure weighting 161 grams
- Javanese flying squirrel weighting 156 grams
- Echigo mole weighting 163 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-footed treeshrew
Also reaching around 18.5 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Large mole gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cerradomys subflavus gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Green bush squirrel gets as big as 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ricefield rat gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-furred dasyure gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)