How many baby Peters’s climbing rats are in a litter?
A Peters’s climbing rat (Tylomys nudicaudus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 5 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 39 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 19 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 8.4 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Tylomys). An adult Peters’s climbing rat grows up to a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 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.
Peters’s climbing rat (Tylomys nudicaudus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Peters’s climbing rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat raching a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-necked mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Wood mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Guinea multimammate mouse with 11 babies per pregnancy
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Akodon albiventer weighting only 26 grams
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Peters’s climbing rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
- Saiga antelope
- Thick-tailed pygmy jerboa
- African civet
- Red-legged sun squirrel
- Feathertail glider
- Common gundi
- African black shrew
- Eurasian otter
- Fossa (animal)
Animals that get as old as a Peters’s climbing rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.33 years:
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 6 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Abbott’s duiker with 5.42 years
- Greater bulldog bat with 5.75 years
- White-tailed rat with 6 years
- White-bellied duiker with 5.25 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with 5.17 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with 5.33 years
- Western quoll with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s climbing rat
What other animals weight around 182 grams (0.4 lbs)?
- Banks flying fox weighting 210 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher weighting 172 grams
- Kintampo rope squirrel weighting 186 grams
- Fossorial giant rat weighting 168 grams
- Brazilian squirrel weighting 177 grams
- Mira climbing rat weighting 184 grams
- Bolivian chinchilla rat weighting 158 grams
- Mindoro striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Lesser mole-rat weighting 188 grams
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat weighting 159 grams