How many baby Mountain spiny pocket mouses are in a litter?
A Mountain spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys oresterus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Heteromys). An adult Mountain spiny pocket mouse grows up to a size of 11 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 spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys oresterus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is endemic to Costa Rica. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Mountain spiny pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- Painted spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lined pocket mouse weighting only 23 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting only 23 grams
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse raching a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse weighting only 65 grams
- Plains pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain spiny pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Rakali
- Hispid hare
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- European wildcat
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Brush mouse
- Egyptian mongoose
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Desert hedgehog
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain spiny pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 74 grams (0.16 lbs)?
- Andean mouse weighting 69 grams
- Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat weighting 85 grams
- Handleyomys intectus weighting 60 grams
- Glacier rat weighting 64 grams
- Edward’s swamp rat weighting 63 grams
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel weighting 63 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat weighting 61 grams
- Red hocicudo weighting 82 grams
- Dusky antechinus weighting 62 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mountain spiny pocket mouse
Also reaching around 11 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Common vole gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater Egyptian gerbil gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pousargues African fat mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Desert mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)