How many baby Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys lorentzii) 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 Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 16.6 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:
- Père David’s vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ilin Island cloudrunner raching a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Indian bush rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Peruvian fish-eating rat weighting only 40 grams
- Northern bog lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brants’s whistling rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinea waterside rat weighting only 526 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s cotton rat weighting only 174 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Spix’s night monkey
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Diana monkey
- Green acouchi
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Azara’s night monkey
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Animals with the same weight as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 150 grams (0.33 lbs)?
- Zanzibar bushbaby weighting 148 grams
- Masked white-tailed rat weighting 149 grams
- Three-striped ground squirrel weighting 175 grams
- Plateau pika weighting 160 grams
- Perote ground squirrel weighting 140 grams
- Bridges’s degu weighting 162 grams
- Isarog shrew-rat weighting 122 grams
- Striped bush squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat weighting 178 grams
- Mindoro striped rat weighting 152 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 16.6 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Maxomys baeodon gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Garden dormouse gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas pocket gopher gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Insular flying fox gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cerradomys subflavus gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)