How many baby Northern pygmy mouses are in a litter?
A Northern pygmy mouse (Baiomys taylori) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 10 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 20 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Baiomys). An adult Northern pygmy mouse grows up to a size of 6.4 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 northern pygmy mouse (Baiomys taylori) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is known as ratón-pigmeo norteño in the Spanish-speaking areas of its range. It is found in Mexico and the United States.Parasites of the northern pygmy mouse include the intestinal nematode Pterygodermatites baiomydis.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Northern pygmy mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Oryzomys couesi with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gould’s mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat raching a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat weighting only 81 grams
- Black-footed tree-rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed climbing mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Silent grass mouse weighting only 39 grams
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Northern pygmy mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat
- White-lipped peccary
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Asian black bear
- Javanese flying squirrel
- False water rat
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Tawny deer mouse
- Clouded leopard
- Bushy-tailed jird
Animals that get as old as a Northern pygmy mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.25 years:
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 2.75 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with 3.17 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with 3 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with 3.5 years
- Southwestern myotis with 3.17 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with 3.33 years
- African pygmy mouse with 3.08 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with 3.33 years
- Little red kaluta with 3 years
- Southwestern water vole with 3.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern pygmy mouse
What other animals weight around 7 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Elgon shrew weighting 6 grams
- Beatrix’s bat weighting 7 grams
- Fringed myotis weighting 8 grams
- Tundra shrew weighting 7 grams
- Wagner’s mustached bat weighting 7 grams
- Tasmanian pygmy possum weighting 8 grams
- Stoliczka’s trident bat weighting 6 grams
- Eastern long-fingered bat weighting 7 grams
- Pilbara ningaui weighting 6 grams
- Alpine shrew weighting 8 grams
Animals with the same size as a Northern pygmy mouse
Also reaching around 6.4 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat gets as big as 5.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s big-eared bat gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern pygmy mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- American water shrew gets as big as 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lowe’s shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Laxmann’s shrew gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Large-eared tenrec gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)