How many baby Natal multimammate mouses are in a litter?
A Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 12 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Mastomys). An adult Natal multimammate mouse grows up to a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″).
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 Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is also known as the Natal multimammate rat, the common African rat, or the African soft-furred mouse.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Natal multimammate mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Dollman’s melomys raching a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chelemys megalonyx weighting only 50 grams
- Red-nosed mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Zacatecan deer mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat weighting only 69 grams
- Bolivian big-eared mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-haired rat weighting only 221 grams
- Sagebrush vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Puebla deer mouse weighting only 59 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Natal multimammate mouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Lesser fat-tailed jerboa
- Large vesper mouse
- Dark bolo mouse
- Eastern quoll
- Silent dormouse
- Striped field mouse
- Montane vole
- Kowari
- Greater long-nosed armadillo
- Speckled ground squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Natal multimammate mouse
What other animals weight around 49 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Ammodile weighting 50 grams
- Fresno kangaroo rat weighting 41 grams
- Four-striped grass mouse weighting 40 grams
- Siberian brown lemming weighting 58 grams
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec weighting 45 grams
- Great roundleaf bat weighting 50 grams
- Star-nosed mole weighting 48 grams
- Social vole weighting 48 grams
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew weighting 57 grams
- Melanomys caliginosus weighting 41 grams
Animals with the same size as a Natal multimammate mouse
Also reaching around 6 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- True’s shrew mole gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Roborovski dwarf hamster gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tien Shan shrew gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hairy big-eyed bat gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fringed myotis gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inyo shrew gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tailed brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)