How many baby Malayan field rats are in a litter?
A Malayan field rat (Rattus tiomanicus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). An adult Malayan field rat grows up to a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Malayan field rat, Malaysian field rat or Malaysian wood rat, (Rattus tiomanicus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is nocturnal and mainly arboreal and is found in Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed it as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Malayan field rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Plains rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat weighting only 144 grams
- Black-tailed gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Wagner’s gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe mouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Cauca climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Nephelomys levipes weighting only 60 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Malayan field rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Rock pocket mouse
- Dusky caenolestid
- Large-eared tenrec
- Transbaikal zokor
- Meerkat
- Himalayan field rat
- Savanna gerbil
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Ash-grey mouse
- Allen’s squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan field rat
What other animals weight around 119 grams (0.26 lbs)?
- Hispid cotton rat weighting 111 grams
- Talas tuco-tuco weighting 141 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel weighting 135 grams
- Leadbeater’s possum weighting 137 grams
- Tete veld aethomys weighting 133 grams
- Giant roundleaf bat weighting 115 grams
- Highland streaked tenrec weighting 102 grams
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum weighting 119 grams
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Tristram’s jird weighting 112 grams
Animals with the same size as a Malayan field rat
Also reaching around 19 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Mexican ground squirrel gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon broad-toothed rat gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Desert pocket gopher gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Round-tailed muskrat gets as big as 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Russian desman gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Palawan treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Great-tailed triok gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)