How many baby Rothschild’s woolly rats are in a litter?
A Rothschild’s woolly rat (Mallomys rothschildi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.1 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Mallomys). An adult Rothschild’s woolly rat grows up to a size of 38.1 cm (1′ 3″).
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.
Rothschild’s woolly rat (Mallomys rothschildi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found on the island of New Guinea: both in the West Papua region of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.The species has been known to eat karuka nuts (Pandanus julianettii), and growers will put platforms or other obstacles on the trunks of the trees to keep the pests out.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Rothschild’s woolly rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Sundevall’s jird with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed mountain rat weighting only 79 grams
- Plains rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Oldfield white-bellied rat weighting only 81 grams
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat weighting only 60 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Long-clawed mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Rothschild’s woolly rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Narwhal
- Guadalupe fur seal
- Greater kudu
- Rhesus macaque
- Common wallaroo
- Maned sloth
- Margay
- Highland brush mouse
- Red goral
Animals with the same weight as a Rothschild’s woolly rat
What other animals weight around 1.16 kg (2.56 lbs)?
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk weighting 960 grams
- Grizzled giant squirrel usually reaching 1.33 kgs (2.93 lbs)
- Eastern cottontail usually reaching 1.21 kgs (2.67 lbs)
- Malagasy giant rat usually reaching 1.18 kgs (2.6 lbs)
- Menzies’ echymipera usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Rothschild’s cuscus usually reaching 1.37 kgs (3.02 lbs)
- Bengal slow loris usually reaching 1.14 kgs (2.51 lbs)
- Black-headed night monkey usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Blanford’s fox weighting 994 grams
- Green ringtail possum usually reaching 1.15 kgs (2.54 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Rothschild’s woolly rat
Also reaching around 38.1 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Giant otter shrew gets as big as 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Common opossum gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Riverine rabbit gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Burmese ferret-badger gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Ring-tailed cat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Common kusimanse gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Wedge-capped capuchin gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Steppe polecat gets as big as 43.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Rusty-spotted cat gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)