How many baby Mexican volcano mouses are in a litter?
A Mexican volcano mouse (Neotomodon alstoni) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 27 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Neotomodon). An adult Mexican volcano mouse grows up to a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″).
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 volcano mouse (Neotomodon alstoni) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae endemic to high elevation areas of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Mexican volcano mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Tatra pine vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis weighting only 23 grams
- Pale leaf-eared mouse weighting only 102 grams
- Muskrat with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Middle East blind mole-rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat raching a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bavarian pine vole raching a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Roraima mouse weighting only 33 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Mexican volcano mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Peters’s mouse
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens
- Hispid pocket mouse
- Damaraland mole-rat
- Pyrenean desman
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
- Savanna gerbil
- Abert’s squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican volcano mouse
What other animals weight around 44 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Naked mole-rat weighting 39 grams
- Uinta chipmunk weighting 51 grams
- Cuban fruit-eating bat weighting 37 grams
- Hatt’s vesper rat weighting 36 grams
- Halmahera blossom bat weighting 39 grams
- Tschudi’s slender opossum weighting 41 grams
- Peruvian fish-eating rat weighting 40 grams
- Cape golden mole weighting 39 grams
- Taiwan vole weighting 46 grams
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting 41 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mexican volcano mouse
Also reaching around 11.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Altiplano grass mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Incan caenolestid gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Père David’s vole gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- California mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)