How many baby Red rock rats are in a litter?
A Red rock rat (Aethomys chrysophilus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 26 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Aethomys). An adult Red rock rat grows up to a size of 14.1 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 rock rat, or red veld rat, (Aethomys chrysophilus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae native to southern Africa.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Red rock rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African marsh rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jaliscan cotton rat weighting only 120 grams
- Tien Shan red-backed vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Little wood mouse weighting only 14 grams
- Luzon short-nosed rat raching a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Luzon montane forest mouse weighting only 34 grams
- Royle’s mountain vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys chacoensis weighting only 23 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Red rock rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Amazonian marsh rat
- Mountain pocket gopher
- Cape York rat
- Holochilus brasiliensis
- Plains pocket gopher
- Black-eared mouse
- Dark kangaroo mouse
- Desert kangaroo rat
- Southern bog lemming
- Red river hog
Animals with the same weight as a Red rock rat
What other animals weight around 81 grams (0.18 lbs)?
- Big-eared woolly bat weighting 78 grams
- Highveld gerbil weighting 89 grams
- Robert’s hocicudo weighting 83 grams
- Siskiyou chipmunk weighting 75 grams
- Geoffroy’s rousette weighting 74 grams
- Oecomys phaeotis weighting 73 grams
- Indian desert jird weighting 71 grams
- Mountain pocket gopher weighting 81 grams
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse weighting 83 grams
- Kaiser’s rock rat weighting 90 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red rock rat
Also reaching around 14.1 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- California kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Harpy fruit bat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-footed mole gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tete veld aethomys gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky field rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giant kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)