How many baby Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys levipes) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Melomys). An adult Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 15.1 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-nosed mosaic-tailed rat or Papuan lowland paramelomys (Paramelomys levipes) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Zygodontomys brevicauda with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Large tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Great Key Island giant rat raching a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bush vlei rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Nigerian gerbil weighting only 29 grams
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse weighting only 26 grams
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Florida naked-tailed rat raching a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Cerradomys subflavus with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dall sheep
- Southeast Asian shrew
- Pagai Island macaque
- Dryas monkey
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Humpback whale
- Woolly horseshoe bat
- Agile gibbon
- Variegated butterfly bat
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 82 grams (0.18 lbs)?
- Leschenault’s rousette weighting 84 grams
- Arnhem Land rock rat weighting 94 grams
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 85 grams
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel weighting 70 grams
- Kemp’s thicket rat weighting 75 grams
- Chelemys macronyx weighting 72 grams
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat weighting 69 grams
- Goliath shrew weighting 87 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 15.1 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray slender opossum gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fly River water rat gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red rock rat gets as big as 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Greater tree mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siberian flying squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cave nectar bat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)