How many baby Lowland mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Lowland mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys platyops) 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 Lowland mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 12.8 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 lowland mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys platyops) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Lowland mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Macmillan’s thicket rat weighting only 37 grams
- Hairy-footed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Southern bog lemming with 3 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Malabar spiny dormouse becoming 1.67 years old
- Forest Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting only 49 grams
- Shining thicket rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with 8 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Domestic yak
- Pygmy tarsier
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Black-spotted cuscus
- White-eared titi
- Schreber’s yellow bat
- Père David’s deer
- Northern nail-tail wallaby
- Scimitar oryx
- Least pipistrelle
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 85 grams (0.19 lbs)?
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat weighting 100 grams
- Puna mouse weighting 84 grams
- Bushveld gerbil weighting 73 grams
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Gansu pika weighting 69 grams
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum weighting 93 grams
- Sundevall’s jird weighting 69 grams
- Green bush squirrel weighting 100 grams
- Kemp’s thicket rat weighting 75 grams
- Northern three-toed jerboa weighting 89 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 12.8 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Dollman’s melomys gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiruromys lamia gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Slender rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern hopping mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alexander’s bush squirrel gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-tailed antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guam flying fox gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Allen’s chipmunk gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)