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How many babies does a Peters’s striped mouse have at once? (litter size)

How many baby Peters’s striped mouses are in a litter?

A Peters’s striped mouse (Hybomys univittatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.

Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Hybomys). An adult Peters’s striped mouse grows up to a size of 12.1 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.

Peters’s striped mouse or Peters’s hybomys (Hybomys univittatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Other animals of the family Muridae

Peters’s striped mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:

Animals that share a litter size with Peters’s striped mouse

Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:

Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s striped mouse

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