How many baby Southern pygmy mouses are in a litter?
A Southern pygmy mouse (Baiomys musculus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Baiomys). An adult Southern pygmy mouse grows up to a size of 7.5 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 southern pygmy mouse (Baiomys musculus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Southern pygmy mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan spiny rat weighting only 159 grams
- Big-eared climbing rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Maxomys baeodon weighting only 159 grams
- Oligoryzomys destructor weighting only 25 grams
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse weighting only 46 grams
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat weighting only 57 grams
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat weighting around 1.75 kilograms (3.86 lbs)
- Delicate mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern pygmy mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Aardwolf
- Serval
- Crested servaline genet
- Honey badger
- Pygmy marmoset
- Banana climbing mouse
- Cape dune mole-rat
- Allegheny woodrat
- Jungle cat
- Highland streaked tenrec
Animals with the same weight as a Southern pygmy mouse
What other animals weight around 9 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Eastern long-eared bat weighting 9 grams
- Glen’s wattled bat weighting 10 grams
- Greater sac-winged bat weighting 8 grams
- Temminck’s mouse weighting 8 grams
- Pygmy gerbil weighting 8 grams
- Small mouse-tailed bat weighting 9 grams
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle weighting 8 grams
- Blackish small-eared shrew weighting 8 grams
- Little free-tailed bat weighting 10 grams
- Chestnut sac-winged bat weighting 9 grams
Animals with the same size as a Southern pygmy mouse
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Tufted pygmy squirrel gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Whitaker’s shrew gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender harvest mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Honey possum gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Delicate vesper mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese shrew mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert dormouse gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascan flying fox gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Trowbridge’s shrew gets as big as 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Long-tongued nectar bat gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)