How many baby Sandy inland mouses are in a litter?
A Sandy inland mouse (Pseudomys hermannsburgensis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 31 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pseudomys). An adult Sandy inland mouse grows up to a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″).
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 sandy inland mouse (Pseudomys hermannsburgensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. Also known as the Hermannsburg (Mission) false-mouse or Hermannsburg Mouse, it is endemic to Australia and found widely yet sparsely through arid and semi-arid areas.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Sandy inland mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Koford’s grass mouse weighting only 29 grams
- Slender harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Beaded wood mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Nikolaus’s mouse weighting only 52 grams
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eurasian harvest mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Akodon boliviensis with 4 babies per pregnancy
- New Britain water rat raching a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
Animals that share a litter size with Sandy inland mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Schlieffen’s bat
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Niobe’s shrew
- Highveld gerbil
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
- Rüppell’s fox
- Babault’s mouse shrew
- Golden spiny mouse
- Jaguarundi
- Pygmy mouse lemur
Animals with the same weight as a Sandy inland mouse
What other animals weight around 14 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Eastern red bat weighting 12 grams
- Northern ghost bat weighting 16 grams
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat weighting 15 grams
- Allen’s big-eared bat weighting 12 grams
- Merida small-eared shrew weighting 12 grams
- Greater forest shrew weighting 16 grams
- Intermediate horseshoe bat weighting 13 grams
- Eastern shrew mouse weighting 16 grams
- Isabelle’s ghost bat weighting 12 grams
- Feathertail glider weighting 13 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sandy inland mouse
Also reaching around 8.2 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Northwestern deer mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large slit-faced bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little native mouse gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Agile gracile opossum gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arctic shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser striped shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Serra do Mar grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)