How many baby Mozambique thicket rats are in a litter?
A Mozambique thicket rat (Grammomys cometes) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2.1 kg (4.63 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Grammomys). An adult Mozambique thicket 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 Mozambique thicket rat (Grammomys cometes) is an African species of rodent in the mouse family, Muridae.It is found in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Mozambique thicket rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mesquite mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nelson’s woodrat weighting only 198 grams
- Savanna gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Northwestern deer mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Darien harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Soft grass mouse weighting only 30 grams
- Northern pygmy mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s pine vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mozambique thicket rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Silvery mole-rat
- Tome’s spiny rat
- Fishing cat
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew
- Lesser yellow bat
- Mechow’s mole-rat
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
- Agile kangaroo rat
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
Animals with the same weight as a Mozambique thicket rat
What other animals weight around 45 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Polynesian rat weighting 50 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse weighting 39 grams
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 42 grams
- Neuquén grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Melanomys robustulus weighting 53 grams
- Mexican volcano mouse weighting 44 grams
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse weighting 37 grams
- Jalapan pine vole weighting 40 grams
- Taiwan vole weighting 46 grams
- Ega long-tongued bat weighting 49 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mozambique thicket rat
Also reaching around 11.6 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Vogelkop mountain rat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Olive grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Agile gracile opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)