How many baby Mountain degus are in a litter?
A Mountain degu (Octodontomys gliroides) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 104 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 20 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Octodontidae family (genus: Octodontomys). An adult Mountain degu grows up to a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″).
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 degu (Octodontomys gliroides) is a species of rodent in the family Octodontidae. It is monotypic within the genus Octodontomys. It is found in the foothills of the Andes in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile.
Other animals of the family Octodontidae
Mountain degu is a member of the Octodontidae, as are these animals:
- Plains viscacha rat weighting only 86 grams
- Bridges’s degu weighting only 162 grams
- Common degu with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sage’s rock rat weighting only 96 grams
- Moon-toothed degu weighting only 200 grams
- Mountain viscacha rat weighting only 124 grams
- Coruro with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chilean rock rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain degu
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Southern yellow bat
- Cape fox
- Jungle cat
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse
- Common mole-rat
- Target rat
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat
- Asian black bear
- Western barbastelle
Animals that get as old as a Mountain degu
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7.33 years:
- Hazel dormouse with 6 years
- Southeastern myotis with 6 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with 6.75 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 8 years
- Tropical pocket gopher with 7 years
- Eastern mole with 6.17 years
- Florida mouse with 7.33 years
- San Diego pocket mouse with 8.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain degu
What other animals weight around 154 grams (0.34 lbs)?
- Desert woodrat weighting 144 grams
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat weighting 148 grams
- Madras treeshrew weighting 160 grams
- Stephen’s woodrat weighting 149 grams
- Mexican ground squirrel weighting 177 grams
- Painted treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Allen’s cotton rat weighting 174 grams
- White-eared cotton rat weighting 132 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting 152 grams
- Blick’s grass rat weighting 128 grams