How many baby Moss-forest rats are in a litter?
A Moss-forest rat (Stenomys niobe) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Stenomys). An adult Moss-forest rat grows up to a size of 12.1 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:
- Spy hocicudo weighting only 81 grams
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse weighting only 10 grams
- Long-haired rat weighting only 221 grams
- Pleasant gerbil weighting only 13 grams
- Akodon aerosus weighting only 60 grams
- Neacomys guianae weighting only 15 grams
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat weighting only 148 grams
- Chinese striped hamster with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Moss-forest rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Ord’s kangaroo rat
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Southern pygmy mouse
- False water rat
- Angoni vlei rat
- Greenish yellow bat
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Brants’s whistling rat
- American pika
Animals with the same weight as a Moss-forest rat
What other animals weight around 46 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Euryoryzomys nitidus weighting 55 grams
- Fawn antechinus weighting 38 grams
- Star-nosed mole weighting 48 grams
- Ivory Coast rat weighting 52 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel weighting 45 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx weighting 50 grams
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat weighting 47 grams
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse weighting 41 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew weighting 42 grams
- Guajira mouse opossum weighting 46 grams
Animals with the same size as a Moss-forest rat
Also reaching around 12.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Vogelkop mountain rat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Duthie’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains viscacha rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cave nectar bat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-tailed vole gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Incan caenolestid gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Singing vole gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern grasshopper mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)