How many baby Moonrats are in a litter?
A Moonrat (Echinosorex gymnura) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 37 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 14 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Echinosorex). An adult Moonrat grows up to a size of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″).
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 moonrat (Echinosorex gymnura) is a southeast Asian species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae (hedgehogs and gymnures). It is the only species in the genus Echinosorex. The moonrat is a fairly small, primarily carnivorous animal which, despite its name, is not closely related to rats or other rodents. The scientific name is sometimes given as Echinosorex gymnurus, but this is incorrect.
Other animals of the family Erinaceidae
Moonrat is a member of the Erinaceidae, as are these animals:
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-eared hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Daurian hedgehog raching a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- European hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Desert hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern African hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Podogymnura truei raching a size of 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Moonrat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Yellow-winged bat
- Puku
- Thorold’s deer
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Nubian ibex
- Impala
- Fallow deer
- Nabarlek
- Zebra duiker
- Indian hog deer
Animals that get as old as a Moonrat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- Long-tailed weasel with 7.08 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 7.08 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 7 years
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 8.17 years
- Xerus erythropus with 6 years
- Serotine bat with 6 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Tropical pocket gopher with 7 years
- Woodland dormouse with 5.75 years
- Island fox with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Moonrat
What other animals weight around 787 grams (1.74 lbs)?
- Conover’s tuco-tuco weighting 860 grams
- Bengal mongoose weighting 741 grams
- Central American squirrel monkey weighting 714 grams
- Black-footed tree-rat weighting 716 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot weighting 825 grams
- Northern greater galago weighting 812 grams
- Cape dune mole-rat weighting 804 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 639 grams
- Long-tailed ground squirrel weighting 743 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox weighting 872 grams
Animals with the same size as a Moonrat
Also reaching around 32.7 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Marbled polecat gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brush rabbit gets as big as 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Arctic ground squirrel gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern barred bandicoot gets as big as 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Chinese hare gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Poncelet’s giant rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- White-tailed prairie dog gets as big as 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)