How many baby Shining thicket rats are in a litter?
A Shining thicket rat (Grammomys poensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Grammomys). An adult Shining thicket rat grows up to a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″).
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 shining thicket rat (Grammomys poensis) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Shining thicket rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Kaiser’s rock rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Deroo’s mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Nephelomys auriventer weighting only 60 grams
- Central rock rat weighting only 100 grams
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gerbil mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Guinean gerbil weighting only 102 grams
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Australian swamp rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Shining thicket rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gould’s long-eared bat
- Philippine flying lemur
- Brown-mantled tamarin
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Sooty mustached bat
- Steenbok
- Kolan vole
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Harp seal
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
Animals with the same weight as a Shining thicket rat
What other animals weight around 50 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse weighting 41 grams
- Southern multimammate mouse weighting 53 grams
- Abrothrix illuteus weighting 47 grams
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat weighting 44 grams
- Yellow-pine chipmunk weighting 50 grams
- Neuquén grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse weighting 43 grams
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse weighting 51 grams
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew weighting 60 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 43 grams
Animals with the same size as a Shining thicket rat
Also reaching around 11.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Red tree vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pyrenean desman gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Broad-striped dasyure gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chinese mole shrew gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sclater’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- African wading rat gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)