How many baby Puna mouses are in a litter?
A Puna mouse (Punomys lemminus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 410 grams (0.9 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Punomys). An adult Puna mouse grows up to a size of 1.4 meter (4′ 8″).
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 puna mouse (Punomys lemminus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. It is endemic to southern Peru, where it is found in puna habitat at elevations of 4400 to 4900 m in the Cordillera Occidental.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Puna mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Lesser bandicoot rat with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Highveld gerbil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Unalaska collared lemming with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe field mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Intelligent grass mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Royle’s mountain vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Abrothrix longipilis with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Large Japanese field mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Puna mouse
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Mexican gray squirrel
- African savanna hare
- Lowland paca
- Pond bat
- Tapeti
- Grant’s gazelle
- Southern forest bat
- Hooded seal
- Long-tailed pangolin
- Dall sheep
Animals with the same weight as a Puna mouse
What other animals weight around 84 grams (0.19 lbs)?
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat weighting 85 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat weighting 90 grams
- Gray-footed chipmunk weighting 70 grams
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 68 grams
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat weighting 78 grams
- Dibbler weighting 72 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat weighting 85 grams
- Roman mole weighting 92 grams
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams