How many baby Long-tailed giant rats are in a litter?
A Long-tailed giant rat (Leopoldamys sabanus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 158 grams (0.35 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Leopoldamys). An adult Long-tailed giant rat grows up to a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″).
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 giant rat (Leopoldamys sabanus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Long-tailed giant rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Gould’s mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Rupp’s mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Bibimys chacoensis weighting only 28 grams
- Ryukyu spiny rat weighting only 84 grams
- Steppe lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied climbing mouse weighting only 59 grams
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse weighting only 35 grams
- Four-striped grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky rat weighting only 146 grams
- Pygmy gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-tailed giant rat
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Red fox
- Bushveld gerbil
- Japanese dormouse
- Siberian zokor
- Groundhog
- Himalayan shrew
- Mexican prairie dog
- Zygodontomys brevicauda
- Bush rat
- Krebs’s fat mouse
Animals that get as old as a Long-tailed giant rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2 years:
- Silky anteater with 2.25 years
- Hoary bat with 2.08 years
- Laxmann’s shrew with 2 years
- Norway lemming with 2 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with 1.67 years
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with 2 years
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 2 years
- Swamp antechinus with 2 years
- Vagrant shrew with 2.08 years
- Dusky antechinus with 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed giant rat
What other animals weight around 349 grams (0.77 lbs)?
- Emilia’s marmoset weighting 309 grams
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat weighting 397 grams
- Desert hedgehog weighting 396 grams
- Long-eared hedgehog weighting 332 grams
- Hammer-headed bat weighting 336 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 403 grams
- Boyacá spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Mahogany glider weighting 361 grams
- Namaqua dune mole-rat weighting 389 grams
- Tumbala climbing rat weighting 280 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed giant rat
Also reaching around 22.8 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Brandt’s hedgehog gets as big as 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sardinian pika gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Russian desman gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black flying fox gets as big as 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Island mouse gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Round-tailed muskrat gets as big as 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Green bush squirrel gets as big as 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)