How many baby Ruwenzori otter shrews are in a litter?
A Ruwenzori otter shrew (Micropotamogale ruwenzorii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.8 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Tenrecidae family (genus: Micropotamogale). An adult Ruwenzori otter shrew grows up to a size of 16 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 Ruwenzori otter shrew (Micropotamogale ruwenzorii) is a species of semiaquatic dwarf otter shrew of the family Potamogalidae. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Otter shrews are shrew-like afrotherian mammals found in sub-Saharan Africa. They are most closely related to the tenrecs of Madagascar.
Other animals of the family Tenrecidae
Ruwenzori otter shrew is a member of the Tenrecidae, as are these animals:
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting only 4 grams
- Tailless tenrec with 16 babies per pregnancy
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec weighting only 10 grams
- Large-eared tenrec with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed rice tenrec weighting only 35 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec weighting only 12 grams
- Gracile shrew tenrec weighting only 23 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec weighting only 18 grams
- Web-footed tenrec with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ruwenzori otter shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle
- Kolan vole
- Honduran white bat
- Small bent-winged bat
- Common wallaroo
- Bawean deer
- Kolan vole
- Squirrel glider
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat
- Egyptian fruit bat
Animals with the same weight as a Ruwenzori otter shrew
What other animals weight around 112 grams (0.25 lbs)?
- Broad-toothed mouse weighting 125 grams
- Romanian hamster weighting 97 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara weighting 100 grams
- Coruro weighting 101 grams
- Isarog shrew-rat weighting 122 grams
- Southern African vlei rat weighting 114 grams
- Long-tailed hopping mouse weighting 100 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat weighting 108 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- European water vole weighting 120 grams
Animals with the same size as a Ruwenzori otter shrew
Also reaching around 16 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-haired rat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Giluwe rat gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-toothed mouse gets as big as 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Plains viscacha rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)