How many baby Shaw Mayer’s brush mouses are in a litter?
A Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse (Pogonomelomys mayeri) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Pogonomelomys). An adult Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse grows up to a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse (Pogonomelomys mayeri) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Natal multimammate mouse weighting only 62 grams
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mindomys weighting only 60 grams
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat raching a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-throated grass mouse weighting only 42 grams
- Steppe mouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Red hocicudo with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Siberian roe deer
- Little desert pocket mouse
- Southern mountain cavy
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse
- Serval
- Honey possum
- Amami rabbit
- Clouded leopard
Animals with the same weight as a Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
What other animals weight around 111 grams (0.24 lbs)?
- Kemp’s gerbil weighting 100 grams
- White-bellied rat weighting 100 grams
- Slender treeshrew weighting 112 grams
- Fraternal hill rat weighting 130 grams
- Australian swamp rat weighting 106 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 95 grams
- Gray flying fox weighting 90 grams
- Woolly giant rat weighting 116 grams
- Owl’s spiny rat weighting 114 grams
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum weighting 112 grams
Animals with the same size as a Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
Also reaching around 14.4 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Whitehead’s spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Roman mole gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Zempoaltépec vole gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stein’s paramelomys gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gaoligong pika gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ochre bush squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gorongoza gerbil gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Australian swamp rat gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)