How many baby Northeast African mole-rats are in a litter?
A Northeast African mole-rat (Tachyoryctes splendens) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 39 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 15 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Tachyoryctes). An adult Northeast African mole-rat grows up to a size of 19.7 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 northeast African mole-rat (Tachyoryctes splendens) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae and is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, and northwest Kenya. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry savanna, high-altitude shrubland and grassland. It lives a solitary existence underground and produces a small litter of pups twice a year, in the two rainy seasons. Some taxonomic authorities lump this species, along with a number of others in the genus, in which case the English name East African mole-rat is used.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Northeast African mole-rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Vogelkop mountain rat raching a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sandy inland mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Taiwan vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western water rat raching a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared swamp rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Royle’s mountain vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Cloud forest grass mouse weighting only 39 grams
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse weighting only 35 grams
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Northeast African mole-rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dama gazelle
- African savanna hare
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Striped possum
- Caribbean monk seal
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Western brush wallaby
Animals with the same weight as a Northeast African mole-rat
What other animals weight around 227 grams (0.5 lbs)?
- Ear-spot squirrel weighting 209 grams
- Lesser mole-rat weighting 189 grams
- Colombian weasel weighting 211 grams
- White-footed rabbit-rat weighting 200 grams
- Goldman’s woodrat weighting 198 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat weighting 224 grams
- Euphrates jerboa weighting 232 grams
- Large vlei rat weighting 192 grams
- Southern spiny pocket mouse weighting 268 grams
- White-tailed antsangy weighting 205 grams
Animals with the same size as a Northeast African mole-rat
Also reaching around 19.7 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel gets as big as 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-fingered triok gets as big as 23.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Smoky flying squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater stick-nest rat gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Shrew-faced squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-throated woodrat gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Numbat gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)