How many baby Rufous elephant shrews are in a litter?
A Rufous elephant shrew (Elephantulus rufescens) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 57 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macroscelididae family (genus: Elephantulus). An adult Rufous elephant shrew grows up to a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″).
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 rufous elephant shrew, rufous sengi or East African long-eared elephant-shrew (Elephantulus rufescens) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. Found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Other animals of the family Macroscelididae
Rufous elephant shrew is a member of the Macroscelididae, as are these animals:
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macroscelides proboscideus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- North African elephant shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew weighting only 57 grams
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali elephant shrew weighting only 32 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Rufous elephant shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Indri
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Cape serotine
- Mountain gazelle
- Least horseshoe bat
- Bawean deer
- Brazilian shrew mouse
- Railer bat
- Père David’s deer
- Wolf’s mona monkey
Animals that get as old as a Rufous elephant shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- American pika with 7 years
- Evening bat with 5 years
- Greater bulldog bat with 5.75 years
- Collared pika with 6 years
- Derby’s woolly opossum with 5 years
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
- Plains pocket gopher with 7.17 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 5.5 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rufous elephant shrew
What other animals weight around 52 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- African wading rat weighting 62 grams
- Flat-headed vole weighting 50 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat weighting 50 grams
- Great roundleaf bat weighting 50 grams
- Alexander’s bush squirrel weighting 50 grams
- Mountain pygmy possum weighting 44 grams
- Neuquén grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Hylaeamys yunganus weighting 60 grams
- Garlepp’s mouse weighting 59 grams
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat weighting 46 grams
Animals with the same size as a Rufous elephant shrew
Also reaching around 25 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Great Key Island giant rat gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Large Luzon forest rat gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern glider gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Magellanic tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel gets as big as 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Kinabalu squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Palawan montane squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sunda slow loris gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)