How many baby Southern grasshopper mouses are in a litter?
A Southern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys torridus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 28 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 13.5 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Onychomys). An adult Southern grasshopper mouse grows up to a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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 southern grasshopper mouse or scorpion mouse (Onychomys torridus) is a species of the order Rodentia, and is in the family Cricetidae. It is found in Mexico and in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah in the United States. Notable for its resistance to venom, it routinely kills and eats Arizona bark scorpions, a species with a highly venomous sting.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Southern grasshopper mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Pleasant bolo mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Island mouse weighting only 164 grams
- Indian gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tete veld aethomys weighting only 133 grams
- Krebs’s fat mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Greater bandicoot rat with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Arizona woodrat weighting only 200 grams
- Mediterranean pine vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Blue-gray mouse raching a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern collared lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern grasshopper mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Sable
- Acacia rat
- Brants’s climbing mouse
- Northern mole vole
- Black-eared mouse
- Desert kangaroo rat
- Yarkand hare
- Japanese mountain mole
- Bengal fox
- Bicolored shrew
Animals that get as old as a Southern grasshopper mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4.58 years:
- Hairy-tailed mole with 5 years
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat with 5 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Desert hedgehog with 4.5 years
- Giant golden mole with 4 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with 5 years
- Silky pocket mouse with 5 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern grasshopper mouse
What other animals weight around 21 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Malagasy mountain mouse weighting 25 grams
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens weighting 25 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting 18 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus weighting 25 grams
- Abrothrix andinus weighting 24 grams
- Seba’s short-tailed bat weighting 19 grams
- Woodland dormouse weighting 20 grams
- Brazilian arboreal mouse weighting 21 grams
- Brown fruit-eating bat weighting 19 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse weighting 21 grams
Animals with the same size as a Southern grasshopper mouse
Also reaching around 9.4 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Wagner’s gerbil gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese mountain mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicobar shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese mole shrew gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olive grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northwestern deer mouse gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)