How many baby Mindoro black rats are in a litter?
A Mindoro black rat (Rattus mindorensis) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). An adult Mindoro black 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 Mindoro black rat (Rattus mindorensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found only in hilly and forested areas of Mindoro island, Philippines.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Mindoro black rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Indian bush rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Giant naked-tailed rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Little Indian field mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mimic tree rat weighting only 975 grams
- Hairy-footed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African grass rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mamore arboreal rice rat weighting only 62 grams
- Field vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rupp’s mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Cloud forest grass mouse weighting only 39 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Mindoro black rat
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Brown antechinus
- New Guinean quoll
- Crest-tailed mulgara
- North American brown lemming
- Afghan pika
- Brush-tailed phascogale
- Chinese striped hamster
- Arctic shrew
- Philippine warty pig
- Eurasian water shrew
Animals with the same size as a Mindoro black rat
Also reaching around 19 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Painted treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Luzon striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian hedgehog gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mexican woodrat gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)