How many baby Murree voles are in a litter?
A Murree vole (Hyperacrius wynnei) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Hyperacrius). An adult Murree vole grows up to a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″).
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 Murree vole (Hyperacrius wynnei) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to Pakistan. It was named by Blanford after its collector, geologist Arthur Beevor Wynne.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Murree vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Alston’s brown mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern African vlei rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Small vesper mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Bismarck giant rat weighting only 612 grams
- Tamaulipan woodrat weighting only 198 grams
- Highland brush mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Akodon boliviensis with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy giant rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly giant rat weighting only 116 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Murree vole
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Javanese flying squirrel
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset
- Van Deusen’s rat
- Deppe’s squirrel
- Giant otter
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy
- Little pied bat
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Common genet
Animals with the same weight as a Murree vole
What other animals weight around 52 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting 56 grams
- Neuquén grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Melanomys robustulus weighting 53 grams
- Ega long-tongued bat weighting 49 grams
- Eastern tube-nosed bat weighting 48 grams
- Miller’s striped mouse weighting 49 grams
- Moss-forest rat weighting 45 grams
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 49 grams
- Greater Egyptian gerbil weighting 42 grams
- Alexander’s bush squirrel weighting 50 grams