How many baby Long-footed water rats are in a litter?
A Long-footed water rat (Leptomys elegans) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 254 grams (0.56 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Leptomys). An adult Long-footed water rat grows up to a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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 water rat (Leptomys elegans) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in the mountains of southern Papua New Guinea.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forest.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Long-footed water rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Emin’s gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Least forest mouse weighting only 21 grams
- Rupp’s mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Sikkim mountain vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse weighting only 16 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse weighting only 35 grams
- Candango mouse weighting only 97 grams
- Krebs’s fat mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat weighting only 159 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Long-footed water rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Link rat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Ringed seal
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Striped dolphin
- White-faced spiny tree-rat
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat
- Silky cuscus
- Pennant’s colobus
- Northern glider
Animals with the same weight as a Long-footed water rat
What other animals weight around 83 grams (0.18 lbs)?
- Blind mole weighting 70 grams
- Bushveld gerbil weighting 73 grams
- Hero shrew weighting 91 grams
- Biting chinchilla mouse weighting 82 grams
- Biak glider weighting 90 grams
- Slender rat weighting 97 grams
- Red hocicudo weighting 82 grams
- San Quintin kangaroo rat weighting 84 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 73 grams
- Web-footed tenrec weighting 77 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-footed water rat
Also reaching around 15.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Guajira mouse opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cave nectar bat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Père David’s mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Low’s squirrel gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Maxomys baeodon gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Senegal bushbaby gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)