How many baby Lowland mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Lowland mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys platyops) 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 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:
- Mearns’s pouched mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain spiny rat weighting only 159 grams
- Turkish hamster with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Venezuelan climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Splendid climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Peruvian vesper mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Winkelmann’s mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Southern mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Caribbean monk seal
- Mindanao treeshrew
- Robert’s snow vole
- Harnessed bushbuck
- Rufous hare-wallaby
- Northern common cuscus
- Grant’s gazelle
- Urial
- Purple-faced langur
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 85 grams (0.19 lbs)?
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat weighting 80 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Oecomys flavicans weighting 73 grams
- Big deer mouse weighting 71 grams
- Northern red-sided opossum weighting 79 grams
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 85 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat weighting 80 grams
- Greater nectar bat weighting 72 grams
- Arctic lemming weighting 78 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:
- Mole-like rice tenrec gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Handley’s slender opossum gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pseudoryzomys gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Robust yellow bat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Feather-tailed possum gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)