How many baby Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys levipes) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Paramelomys). 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:
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse weighting only 22 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Transcaucasian mole vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Field vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating rat weighting only 66 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Luzon striped rat weighting only 152 grams
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat raching a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Golden Oldfield mouse weighting only 88 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Usambara shrew
- Mohol bushbaby
- Zebra duiker
- Red slender loris
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Amazonian manatee
- Oribi
- Greater grison
- Sumatran serow
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 82 grams (0.18 lbs)?
- Smoky mouse weighting 68 grams
- Mazama pocket gopher weighting 93 grams
- Gray-footed chipmunk weighting 70 grams
- North American brown lemming weighting 69 grams
- Small hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat weighting 67 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur weighting 68 grams
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat weighting 66 grams
- Long-tailed mountain rat weighting 79 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:
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky slender opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Temotu flying fox gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Admiralty flying fox gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Rough-haired golden mole gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)