How many baby Red spiny rats are in a litter?
A Red spiny rat (Maxomys surifer) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Maxomys). An adult Red spiny rat grows up to a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 spiny rat (Maxomys surifer) is a rodent species in the family Muridae that inhabits forests in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and on Java, Borneo and Sumatra islands. In China, it has been recorded only in Yunnan province.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Red spiny rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Shining thicket rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican harvest mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Dark bolo mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse weighting only 41 grams
- Oecomys rutilus weighting only 73 grams
- Sula rat weighting only 131 grams
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse weighting only 22 grams
- Variable grass mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Bismarck giant rat weighting only 612 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Red spiny rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Hispid hare
- Cotton mouse
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Meerkat
- Woodland thicket rat
- Malayan field rat
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
- Gambian pouched rat
- Severtzov’s jerboa
Animals with the same weight as a Red spiny rat
What other animals weight around 150 grams (0.33 lbs)?
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting 165 grams
- Spectral tarsier weighting 168 grams
- European water vole weighting 120 grams
- Lowland streaked tenrec weighting 129 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel weighting 130 grams
- Alston’s mouse opossum weighting 132 grams
- Sangihe tarsier weighting 165 grams
- Savanna gerbil weighting 121 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 144 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red spiny rat
Also reaching around 16.7 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Silky anteater gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Buller’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kowari gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hainan gymnure gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Philippine forest rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western water rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)