How many baby Long-tailed dwarf hamsters are in a litter?
A Long-tailed dwarf hamster (Cricetulus longicaudatus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Cricetulus). An adult Long-tailed dwarf hamster grows up to a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 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 long-tailed dwarf hamster (Cricetulus longicaudatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Long-tailed dwarf hamster is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Robbins’s tateril weighting only 47 grams
- Deroo’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse weighting only 47 grams
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat weighting only 47 grams
- Bismarck giant rat weighting only 613 grams
- Mexican harvest mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Least forest mouse weighting only 21 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Long-tailed dwarf hamster
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once: