How many baby Sonoran woodrats are in a litter?
A Sonoran woodrat (Neotoma phenax) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 11 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Neotoma). An adult Sonoran woodrat grows up to a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Sonoran woodrat (Neotoma phenax) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found only in Mexico.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Sonoran woodrat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Transcaucasian mole vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Guinean gerbil weighting only 103 grams
- Dent’s vlei rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Delicate mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Namaqua rock rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse weighting only 46 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Charming climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Lukolela swamp rat weighting only 42 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Sonoran woodrat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Menzbier’s marmot
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel
- Lesser cane rat
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot
- Low’s squirrel
- Siberian roe deer
- Cape genet
- Kodkod
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Lusitanian pine vole
Animals with the same weight as a Sonoran woodrat
What other animals weight around 227 grams (0.5 lbs)?
- Northern treeshrew weighting 200 grams
- Large treeshrew weighting 182 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher weighting 250 grams
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat weighting 186 grams
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting 201 grams
- Mohave ground squirrel weighting 213 grams
- American red squirrel weighting 200 grams
- Squirrel glider weighting 230 grams
- Yellow-bellied weasel weighting 264 grams
- Lundomys weighting 238 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sonoran woodrat
Also reaching around 19.6 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Admiralty flying fox gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dusky field rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cape York rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Green bush squirrel gets as big as 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pteropus gilliardi gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nicobar flying fox gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern African hedgehog gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)