How many baby Slender harvest mouses are in a litter?
A Slender harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys gracilis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Reithrodontomys). An adult Slender harvest mouse grows up to a size of 7.2 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 slender harvest mouse(Reithrodontomys gracilis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae. A small mouse-like rodent distributed throughout a portion Central America.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Slender harvest mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Cheesman’s gerbil with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Luzon montane forest mouse weighting only 34 grams
- Malayan tree rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- True’s vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Four-striped grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Stolička’s mountain vole with 7 babies per pregnancy
- San Martín Island woodrat weighting only 240 grams
- Spy hocicudo weighting only 81 grams
- Vogelkop mountain rat raching a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Slender harvest mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Pinyon mouse
- Arctic lemming
- Northern flying squirrel
- Neacomys tenuipes
- Djoongari
- Desert hedgehog
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse
- Bahamian raccoon
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Slender harvest mouse
What other animals weight around 12 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Silky short-tailed bat weighting 14 grams
- Little long-tailed dunnart weighting 14 grams
- African black shrew weighting 11 grams
- Darien harvest mouse weighting 12 grams
- Greater long-tailed hamster weighting 13 grams
- Variegated butterfly bat weighting 11 grams
- Merida small-eared shrew weighting 12 grams
- Lesser hairy-winged bat weighting 13 grams
- Oldfield mouse weighting 14 grams
- Mexican free-tailed bat weighting 12 grams
Animals with the same size as a Slender harvest mouse
Also reaching around 7.2 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Hoary bat gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bates’s shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cuban flower bat gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- North American least shrew gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Shinto shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Horsfield’s shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Alpine shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse gets as big as 8 cm (0′ 4″)