How many baby Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys fellowsi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Melomys). An adult Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″).
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 red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (Protochromys fellowsi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is the only species in the genus Protochromys.It is found only in Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Malayan field rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-backed tree-rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Southwestern water vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bolaños woodrat weighting only 198 grams
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse weighting only 30 grams
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Delectable soft-furred mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Asian particolored bat
- Crab-eating raccoon
- African striped weasel
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
- Seminole bat
- Van Deusen’s rat
- Sarcophilus laniarius
- Rock hyrax
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 79 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Vampyriscus nymphaea weighting 69 grams
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Harrington’s rat weighting 90 grams
- Amazon dwarf squirrel weighting 92 grams
- Water vole (North America) weighting 92 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting 87 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat weighting 85 grams
- Angular hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat weighting 84 grams
- Southern mole vole weighting 80 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 14.3 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Gray mouse lemur gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rajah spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Texas antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ochre bush squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brazilian slender opossum gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- California chipmunk gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tete veld aethomys gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Junin slender opossum gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Senegal bushbaby gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)