How many baby New Guinean jumping mouses are in a litter?
A New Guinean jumping mouse (Lorentzimys nouhuysi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Lorentzimys). An adult New Guinean jumping mouse grows up to a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″).
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 New Guinean jumping mouse (Lorentzimys nouhuysi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
New Guinean jumping mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- European snow vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bavarian pine vole raching a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arnhem Land rock rat weighting only 94 grams
- Gambian pouched rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Smith’s vole weighting only 35 grams
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian zokor with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Percival’s spiny mouse weighting only 22 grams
- Moss-forest rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Large bamboo rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with New Guinean jumping mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Banded linsang
- Gould’s wattled bat
- Short-tailed gymnure
- Iberian lynx
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
- Fresno kangaroo rat
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Lesser yellow bat
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew
Animals with the same weight as a New Guinean jumping mouse
What other animals weight around 14 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat weighting 13 grams
- Miller’s long-tongued bat weighting 13 grams
- Mexican free-tailed bat weighting 12 grams
- Hairy-tailed bat weighting 14 grams
- Niobe’s shrew weighting 16 grams
- Rufous trident bat weighting 13 grams
- Buffy flower bat weighting 16 grams
- Northern ghost bat weighting 16 grams
- Velvety free-tailed bat weighting 13 grams
- Greater forest shrew weighting 16 grams
Animals with the same size as a New Guinean jumping mouse
Also reaching around 8.1 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Bastard big-footed mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern ghost bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sinaloan pocket mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Burt’s deer mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland dormouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese mole shrew gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Olive-backed pocket mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)