How many baby Mountain mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Mountain mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys rubex) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Paramelomys). An adult Mountain mosaic-tailed 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 mountain mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys rubex) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Mountain mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Cerradomys subflavus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Littledale’s whistling rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Naked-eared deer mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Western heather vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Percival’s spiny mouse weighting only 22 grams
- Mexican vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Moss-forest rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sikkim rat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid cotton rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Ivory Coast rat weighting only 52 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Long-tailed mouse
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot
- Richmond’s squirrel
- Pel’s flying squirrel
- Northern pygmy mouse
- Van Deusen’s rat
- Amami rabbit
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 47 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Long-nosed dasyure weighting 54 grams
- Defua rat weighting 43 grams
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum weighting 47 grams
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole weighting 56 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse weighting 51 grams
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 45 grams
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 41 grams
- Cloud forest grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Least chipmunk weighting 42 grams
- Ammodile weighting 50 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 11.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Tarabundí vole gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Painted spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ghost bat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)