How many baby Stephen’s woodrats are in a litter?
A Stephen’s woodrat (Neotoma stephensi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 31 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 6.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Neotoma). An adult Stephen’s woodrat grows up to a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Stephen’s woodrat (Neotoma stephensi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah in the United States.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Stephen’s woodrat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Fat sand rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat weighting only 47 grams
- Sagebrush vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sakhalin vole with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Round-tailed muskrat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Miller’s striped mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Meadow vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Olive grass mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Stephen’s woodrat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Aberdare mole shrew
- South Asian river dolphin
- Long-footed water rat
- Southern viscacha
- Hottentot golden mole
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Dormer’s bat
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
- Mantled guereza
Animals with the same weight as a Stephen’s woodrat
What other animals weight around 149 grams (0.33 lbs)?
- Ricefield rat weighting 165 grams
- Mindoro striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Mountain degu weighting 154 grams
- Luzon striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Striped bush squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Black rat weighting 142 grams
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat weighting 138 grams
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat weighting 175 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher weighting 172 grams
Animals with the same size as a Stephen’s woodrat
Also reaching around 16.1 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mohave ground squirrel gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Perote ground squirrel gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Père David’s mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Golden hamster gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert pocket gopher gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray slender opossum gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cape York melomys gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)