How many baby Sand-colored soft-furred rats are in a litter?
A Sand-colored soft-furred rat (Millardia gleadowi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Millardia). An adult Sand-colored soft-furred rat grows up to a size of 15.6 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 sand-colored soft-furred rat (Millardia gleadowi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in India and Pakistan.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Sand-colored soft-furred rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Big-eared hopping mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Coues’s climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Northern water rat weighting only 54 grams
- Tumbala climbing rat weighting only 280 grams
- Mountain water rat raching a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-eared cerrado mouse weighting only 24 grams
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine forest rat weighting only 253 grams
- Nyika rock rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Roborovski dwarf hamster with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sand-colored soft-furred rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Gambian sun squirrel
- Yunnan hare
- Black-striped squirrel
- Watson’s climbing rat
- Little desert pocket mouse
- Red hocicudo
- Musky rat-kangaroo
- Long-nosed bandicoot
- Golden palm civet
- Sarcophilus laniarius
Animals that get as old as a Sand-colored soft-furred rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- European hamster with 4 years
- Lesser bamboo rat with 3.67 years
- Acacia rat with 3.5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with 4.5 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with 4.58 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Kultarr with 3.25 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with 3.25 years
- Smith’s vole with 3.5 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years