How many baby Mindanao treeshrews are in a litter?
A Mindanao treeshrew (Urogale everetti) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 55 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 20 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Tupaiidae family (genus: Urogale). An adult Mindanao treeshrew grows up to a size of 19.5 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 Mindanao treeshrew (Urogale everetti), also called the Philippine tree shrew, is a species of treeshrew endemic to the Mindanao region in the Philippines. It is the only member of the genus Urogale. The scientific name commemorates British colonial administrator and zoological collector Alfred Hart Everett.
Other animals of the family Tupaiidae
Mindanao treeshrew is a member of the Tupaiidae, as are these animals:
- Mountain treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew weighting only 60 grams
- Horsfield’s treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Slender treeshrew weighting only 112 grams
- Northern treeshrew becoming 10 years old
- Long-footed treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Madras treeshrew with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Striped treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Palawan treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Large treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mindanao treeshrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pudú
- White-bellied spider monkey
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Brown dorcopsis
- White-tailed deer
- Lesser tree mouse
- Northern elephant seal
- Speke’s gazelle
- Chocolate wattled bat
- Black rhinoceros
Animals that get as old as a Mindanao treeshrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11.5 years:
- Naked mole-rat with 10 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Cape ground squirrel with 13 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Red acouchi with 10 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with 12 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mindanao treeshrew
What other animals weight around 301 grams (0.66 lbs)?
- Black-shouldered opossum weighting 258 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat weighting 290 grams
- Amazon weasel weighting 268 grams
- Greater stick-nest rat weighting 329 grams
- White-headed marmoset weighting 342 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Long-eared hedgehog weighting 332 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher weighting 266 grams
- Four-toed hedgehog weighting 311 grams
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel weighting 250 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mindanao treeshrew
Also reaching around 19.5 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky pocket gopher gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Horse-tailed squirrel gets as big as 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mariana fruit bat gets as big as 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black-shouldered opossum gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Japen rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- European ground squirrel gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian hedgehog gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Taiga vole gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)