How many baby Panamanian spiny pocket mouses are in a litter?
A Panamanian spiny pocket mouse (Liomys adspersus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 90 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 15.6 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Heteromyidae family (genus: Liomys). An adult Panamanian spiny pocket mouse grows up to a size of 12.5 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 Panamanian spiny pocket mouse (Heteromys adspersus), also known as Peter’s spiny pocket mouse, is a species of heteromyid rodent endemic to Panama. It is very closely related to Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse, and has been placed in the same species group by some authors. 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
Panamanian spiny pocket mouse is a member of the Heteromyidae, as are these animals:
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Lined pocket mouse weighting only 23 grams
- Little desert pocket mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Great Basin pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Texas kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sinaloan pocket mouse weighting only 17 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- California kangaroo rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Prairie vole
- Peters’s mouse
- Indian long-eared hedgehog
- Brown palm civet
- Desert warthog
- Derby’s woolly opossum
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Long-tailed marmot
- Hoary fox
- Nimba otter shrew
Animals that get as old as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1.75 years:
- Grant’s golden mole with 2 years
- Trowbridge’s shrew with 1.5 years
- Delany’s mouse with 2 years
- Ornate shrew with 1.42 years
- Honey possum with 2 years
- Feather-tailed possum with 2 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with 1.67 years
- Pilbara ningaui with 2 years
- White-eared opossum with 1.67 years
- Texas mouse with 1.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
What other animals weight around 51 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Swamp antechinus weighting 53 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse weighting 54 grams
- Plains rat weighting 53 grams
- Chestnut-striped opossum weighting 45 grams
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse weighting 47 grams
- Senegal gerbil weighting 60 grams
- Mongolian gerbil weighting 57 grams
- Four-toed jerboa weighting 52 grams
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat weighting 42 grams
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse weighting 43 grams
Animals with the same size as a Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
Also reaching around 12.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chinese water shrew gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Roman mole gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- California vole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern collared lemming gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)