How many baby Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys lorentzii) 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 Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys lorentzii) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.According to the Kalam people of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, it helps spread karuka seeds.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Vinogradov’s jird with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky field rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Pale gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Dickey’s deer mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Chinese zokor weighting only 257 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Alston’s brown mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Andean gerbil mouse weighting only 28 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Toolache wallaby
- Bohor reedbuck
- Greater grison
- White-bellied spider monkey
- Delicate mouse
- Hairy-legged vampire bat
- Robert’s snow vole
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Mongalla free-tailed bat
- Celebes crested macaque
Animals with the same weight as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 150 grams (0.33 lbs)?
- Bridges’s degu weighting 162 grams
- Chilean rock rat weighting 130 grams
- African marsh rat weighting 128 grams
- Bush rat weighting 124 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Harpy fruit bat weighting 135 grams
- Spectral tarsier weighting 166 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat weighting 159 grams
- Pale field rat weighting 169 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 17.5 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- European ground squirrel gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican ground squirrel gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sugar glider gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel gets as big as 20.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- European water vole gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern pocket gopher gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)