How many baby Maned rats are in a litter?
A Maned rat (Lophiomys imhausi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 136 grams (0.3 lbs) and measure 91.3 cm (3′ 0″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Lophiomys). An adult Maned rat grows up to a size of 60.2 cm (2′ 0″).
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 maned rat or crested rat (Lophiomys imhausi) is a nocturnal, long-haired and bushy-tailed East African rodent that superficially resembles a porcupine.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Maned rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Cochabamba grass mouse weighting only 34 grams
- Western heather vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Hatt’s vesper rat weighting only 36 grams
- Mexican woodrat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sooretamys weighting only 144 grams
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Notiomys weighting only 21 grams
- Robert’s hocicudo weighting only 83 grams
- Cape short-eared gerbil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Maned rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black capuchin
- Aye-aye
- Western long-beaked echidna
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Malagasy civet
- Melanomys caliginosus
- Anoa
- Okapi
- Greater long-nosed bat
- Toolache wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Maned rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7.5 years:
- Eastern cottontail with 9 years
- Woylie with 6.5 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Mongolian gazelle with 7 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 7 years
- Southern tamandua with 9 years
- Moonrat with 7 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 7.08 years
- Common ringtail possum with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Maned rat
What other animals weight around 755 grams (1.66 lbs)?
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting 675 grams
- Red-tailed sportive lemur weighting 763 grams
- Giant otter shrew weighting 685 grams
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum weighting 796 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat weighting 745 grams
- Andean squirrel weighting 803 grams
- Aotus infulatus weighting 800 grams
- Conover’s tuco-tuco weighting 860 grams
- New England cottontail weighting 814 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher weighting 650 grams