How many baby Pygmy treeshrews are in a litter?
A Pygmy treeshrew (Tupaia minor) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 9.7 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Tupaiidae family (genus: Tupaia). An adult Pygmy treeshrew grows up to a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 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 pygmy treeshrew (Tupaia minor) is a treeshrew species within the family Tupaiidae. It is native to Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.The generic name is derived from the Malay word tupai meaning squirrel or small animals that resemble squirrels.
Other animals of the family Tupaiidae
Pygmy treeshrew is a member of the Tupaiidae, as are these animals:
- Ruddy treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Palawan treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pen-tailed treeshrew becoming 2.67 years old
- Painted treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew weighting only 50 grams
- Striped treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Large treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Nicobar treeshrew weighting only 170 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Pygmy treeshrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Servaline genet
- Western white-eared giant rat
- Molossops planirostris
- Red-tailed monkey
- Cape elephant shrew
- Silky anteater
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Argentine brown bat
- Kolan vole
- Japanese macaque
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy treeshrew
What other animals weight around 70 grams (0.15 lbs)?
- Madagascan rousette weighting 65 grams
- Angular hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Temminck’s striped mouse weighting 60 grams
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse weighting 74 grams
- Euryoryzomys legatus weighting 61 grams
- Heath mouse weighting 72 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 73 grams
- Web-footed tenrec weighting 77 grams
- Nephelomys albigularis weighting 60 grams
Animals with the same size as a Pygmy treeshrew
Also reaching around 18.5 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Highland tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lesser flying fox gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mouse bandicoot gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dinagat gymnure gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Richmond’s squirrel gets as big as 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Painted treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater hedgehog tenrec gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large mole gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sundevall’s jird gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)