How many baby Siberian zokors are in a litter?
A Siberian zokor (Myospalax myospalax) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Myospalax). An adult Siberian zokor grows up to a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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 Siberian zokor (Myospalax myospalax) is a species of rodents in the family Spalacidae. It is found in Kazakhstan and Russia.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Siberian zokor is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-footed water rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Harrington’s rat weighting only 90 grams
- California red tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat raching a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert pygmy mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Kemp’s gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Least gerbil weighting only 26 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Siberian zokor
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Merriam’s pocket mouse
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster
- Large bamboo rat
- Korean field mouse
- Gunnison’s prairie dog
- Rock squirrel
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil
- Great gerbil
- Common kusimanse
- White-tailed jackrabbit
Animals with the same weight as a Siberian zokor
What other animals weight around 225 grams (0.5 lbs)?
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Mohave ground squirrel weighting 213 grams
- Common degu weighting 203 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat weighting 218 grams
- Mexican woodrat weighting 203 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher weighting 266 grams
- Patagonian weasel weighting 225 grams
- Large treeshrew weighting 182 grams
- Desert pocket gopher weighting 206 grams
- Savile’s bandicoot rat weighting 260 grams