How many baby Mountain treeshrews are in a litter?
A Mountain treeshrew (Tupaia montana) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 48 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 11 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 9.7 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Tupaiidae family (genus: Tupaia). An adult Mountain treeshrew grows up to a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
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 treeshrew (Tupaia montana) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae.It is endemic to Borneo and inhabits montane forests in Sarawak and Sabah.The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.
Other animals of the family Tupaiidae
Mountain treeshrew is a member of the Tupaiidae, as are these animals:
- Slender treeshrew weighting only 112 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew weighting only 170 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew becoming 2.67 years old
- Mindanao treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew weighting only 60 grams
- Common treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Horsfield’s treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Painted treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain treeshrew
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Japanese hare
- Feathertail glider
- Alston’s brown mouse
- Cape porcupine
- Florida mouse
- Armored rat
- Crested agouti
- Marbled cat
- Mzab gundi
- Eurasian lynx
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain treeshrew
What other animals weight around 168 grams (0.37 lbs)?
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat weighting 148 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat weighting 164 grams
- Echigo mole weighting 163 grams
- American pika weighting 158 grams
- Mohol bushbaby weighting 193 grams
- Reddish tuco-tuco weighting 173 grams
- Dusky rat weighting 146 grams
- Western nesomys weighting 155 grams
- Luzon striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Cameroon scaly-tail weighting 200 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mountain treeshrew
Also reaching around 18.5 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Northern quoll gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum gets as big as 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mexican ground squirrel gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Davao squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)