How many baby Mountain mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Mountain mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys rubex) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Melomys). An adult Mountain mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 11.6 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:
- Tanezumi rat weighting only 140 grams
- Handleyomys melanotis with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dark-tailed tree rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern vole weighting only 35 grams
- Round-tailed muskrat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine woolly rat weighting around 2.04 kilograms (4.5 lbs)
- Japen rat weighting only 380 grams
- African grass rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat weighting only 69 grams
- Greater bandicoot rat with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Black-striped squirrel
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- California kangaroo rat
- Highveld gerbil
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Target rat
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
- Smith’s red rock hare
- Layard’s palm squirrel
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 47 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Alexander’s bush squirrel weighting 50 grams
- Hylaeamys oniscus weighting 49 grams
- White-throated grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Andean big-eared mouse weighting 38 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis weighting 38 grams
- Cerradomys subflavus weighting 49 grams
- Long-tailed vole weighting 44 grams
- Great evening bat weighting 49 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
- Comoro rousette weighting 45 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 11.6 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Transandinomys bolivaris gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olive grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Angolan rousette gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sepia short-tailed opossum gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser tree mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-footed vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)