How many baby Mexican mouse opossums are in a litter?
A Mexican mouse opossum (Marmosa mexicana) usually gives birth to around 11 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 110 grams (0.24 lbs) and measure 13.3 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Didelphidae family (genus: Marmosa). An adult Mexican mouse opossum grows up to a size of 13.4 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 Mexican mouse opossum (Marmosa mexicana) is a species of Central American opossum in the family Didelphidae.
Other animals of the family Didelphidae
Mexican mouse opossum is a member of the Didelphidae, as are these animals:
- Lutrine opossum with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting only 20 grams
- Southern three-striped opossum weighting only 112 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum weighting only 28 grams
- Gray short-tailed opossum with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum weighting only 119 grams
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum raching a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum weighting only 29 grams
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mexican mouse opossum
Those animals also give birth to 11 babies at once:
Animals that get as old as a Mexican mouse opossum
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- White-tailed rat with 6 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 8 years
- North African hedgehog with 7 years
- Stoat with 7.08 years
- Northern bettong with 7 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with 6 years
- Mongolian gazelle with 7 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with 6.75 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with 5.67 years
- Coruro with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican mouse opossum
What other animals weight around 49 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- Plateau mouse weighting 40 grams
- California mouse weighting 42 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus weighting 49 grams
- Lukolela swamp rat weighting 42 grams
- Namaqua rock rat weighting 57 grams
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat weighting 41 grams
- Plains rat weighting 53 grams
- Grayish mouse opossum weighting 47 grams
- Ivory Coast rat weighting 52 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mexican mouse opossum
Also reaching around 13.4 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Botta’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tarabundí vole gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Highland brush mouse gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-tailed antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)