How many baby Mountain beavers are in a litter?
A Mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 23 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Aplodontidae family (genus: Aplodontia). An adult Mountain beaver grows up to a size of 30.7 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 mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa) is a North American rodent. It is the only living member of its genus, Aplodontia, and family, Aplodontiidae. It should not be confused with true North American and Eurasian beavers, to which it is not closely related.
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain beaver
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- New Guinean jumping mouse
- Greater bilby
- Southern spiny pocket mouse
- Lesser cane rat
- Lundomys
- Black-footed tree-rat
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
- Nyctophilus corbeni
- Peters’s musk shrew
- Saiga antelope
Animals that get as old as a Mountain beaver
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Plains viscacha with 9.33 years
- Squirrel glider with 12 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with 10 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with 10.08 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Fishing cat with 10 years
- Maned sloth with 12 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with 9 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain beaver
What other animals weight around 806 grams (1.78 lbs)?
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur weighting 936 grams
- Bronze quoll weighting 896 grams
- Travancore flying squirrel weighting 794 grams
- Desert rat-kangaroo weighting 929 grams
- Spectacled flying fox weighting 759 grams
- Western woolly lemur weighting 828 grams
- Peters’s squirrel weighting 650 grams
- Eastern barred bandicoot weighting 903 grams
- Common ringtail possum weighting 895 grams
- Black squirrel monkey weighting 784 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mountain beaver
Also reaching around 30.7 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Long-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Clara’s echymipera gets as big as 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Eastern barred bandicoot gets as big as 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Sunda slow loris gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Siberian weasel gets as big as 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Common echymipera gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)