How many baby Slender rats are in a litter?
A Slender rat (Rattus verecundus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4.67 kg (10.3 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). An adult Slender rat grows up to a size of 14.2 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.
The slender rat (Rattus verecundus) 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
Slender rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Capricorn leaf-eared mouse weighting only 50 grams
- Angular hocicudo weighting only 67 grams
- Savanna gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Four-striped grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat raching a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Plains harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Aquatic rat weighting only 66 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Slender rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Pygmy mouse lemur
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Mexican vole
- Myosorex varius
- Jamaican coney
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Asian particolored bat
- Unalaska collared lemming
- Blanford’s rat
- Giant otter
Animals with the same weight as a Slender rat
What other animals weight around 97 grams (0.21 lbs)?
- European mole weighting 86 grams
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat weighting 100 grams
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat weighting 92 grams
- Congo rope squirrel weighting 112 grams
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum weighting 112 grams
- Gregarious short-tailed rat weighting 92 grams
- Red hocicudo weighting 82 grams
- Least weasel weighting 79 grams
- Dian’s tarsier weighting 110 grams
- Bocage’s mole-rat weighting 93 grams
Animals with the same size as a Slender rat
Also reaching around 14.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Amazon weasel gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pseudoryzomys gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rossel Island melomys gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Goliath shrew gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Uinta chipmunk gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Naked mole-rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- New Caledonia flying fox gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)