How many baby Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat (Protochromys fellowsi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 275 grams (0.61 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Protochromys). An adult Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 14.2 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:
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Rupp’s mouse weighting only 48 grams
- Amazonian marsh rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brown rat with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jaliscan cotton rat weighting only 120 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mindanao shrew-rat raching a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with 2 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:
- Greater stick-nest rat
- Andean mouse
- American marten
- Pygmy rock mouse
- Cape ground squirrel
- Mexican harvest mouse
- Marbled cat
- Murree vole
- Target rat
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 78 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Cape York melomys weighting 70 grams
- Red rock rat weighting 81 grams
- Long-footed water rat weighting 83 grams
- Merriam’s chipmunk weighting 74 grams
- Ruschi’s rat weighting 63 grams
- Southern mole vole weighting 80 grams
- Mazama pocket gopher weighting 93 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Eastern chestnut mouse weighting 79 grams
- Zambian mole-rat weighting 76 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 14.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Long-footed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rough-haired golden mole gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dollman’s melomys gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stein’s paramelomys gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coruro gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian house shrew gets as big as 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Allen’s cotton rat gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Garden dormouse gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)