How many baby Moss-forest rats are in a litter?
A Moss-forest rat (Rattus niobe) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4.67 kg (10.3 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). An adult Moss-forest rat 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 moss-forest rat (Rattus niobe) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Moss-forest rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Gray tree rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Garlepp’s mouse weighting only 59 grams
- Spinifex hopping mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Greater big-footed mouse weighting only 55 grams
- Nephelomys keaysi weighting only 58 grams
- Texas mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Red tree vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Saunder’s vlei rat weighting only 34 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Moss-forest rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Cape dune mole-rat
- Richmond’s squirrel
- Armored rat
- Somali serotine
- Ochre bush squirrel
- Banded mongoose
- Hoary bat
- White-throated woodrat
- Cacomistle
- Marine otter
Animals with the same weight as a Moss-forest rat
What other animals weight around 45 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Painted spiny pocket mouse weighting 43 grams
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse weighting 43 grams
- Oecomys concolor weighting 54 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting 49 grams
- Tschudi’s slender opossum weighting 41 grams
- Chinanteco deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Andean leaf-eared mouse weighting 53 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- Zempoaltépec vole weighting 42 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat weighting 47 grams
Animals with the same size as a Moss-forest rat
Also reaching around 11.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- South African pouched mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed vole gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pen-tailed treeshrew gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western chestnut mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gunning’s golden mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Duthie’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed caenolestid gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Santa Cruz mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Steppe lemming gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bornean water shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)