How many baby Painted spiny pocket mouses are in a litter?
A Painted spiny pocket mouse (Liomys pictus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 25 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 15.6 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Liomys). An adult Painted spiny pocket mouse grows up to a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″).
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 painted spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys pictus) is a species of rodent in the family Heteromyidae. It is found in Mexico and the northern tip of Guatemala. It was formerly placed in the genus Liomys, which is now recognized to be paraphyletic and has been subsumed into Heteromys.
Other animals of the family Heteromyidae
Painted spiny pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- San Quintin kangaroo rat weighting only 84 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting only 23 grams
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desert kangaroo rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Rock pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pale kangaroo mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hispid pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse weighting only 85 grams
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Painted spiny pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Lesser white-toothed shrew
- Lesser red musk shrew
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Eastern woodrat
- Chilean rock rat
- Collared pika
- Savanna path shrew
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- Short-tailed mongoose
- Black-eared mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Painted spiny pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 43 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec weighting 45 grams
- Star-nosed mole weighting 48 grams
- Single-striped grass mouse weighting 50 grams
- Hooper’s mouse weighting 35 grams
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse weighting 39 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat weighting 47 grams
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse weighting 41 grams
- Fat-tailed gerbil weighting 47 grams
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 41 grams
- Temminck’s flying squirrel weighting 43 grams
Animals with the same size as a Painted spiny pocket mouse
Also reaching around 11.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed phascogale gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s striped mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape golden mole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)