How many baby Steppe pikas are in a litter?
A Steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla) usually gives birth to around 8 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 24 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5.7 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Ochotonidae family (genus: Ochotona). An adult Steppe pika grows up to a size of 15.7 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.
The steppe pika (Ochotona pusilla) is a small mammal of the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is found in the steppes of south Russia and northern Kazakhstan.
Other animals of the family Ochotonidae
Steppe pika is a member of the Ochotonidae, as are these animals:
- Nubra pika raching a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Daurian pika with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine pika with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Koslov’s pika with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moupin pika with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gaoligong pika raching a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pika with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s pika with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese red pika raching a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Sardinian pika raching a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals that share a litter size with Steppe pika
Those animals also give birth to 8 babies at once:
- Chestnut dunnart
- Virginia opossum
- Eurasian least shrew
- Tundra shrew
- Dusky antechinus
- Cheesman’s gerbil
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
- Southern long-nosed armadillo
- White-footed dunnart
- Brown rat
Animals that get as old as a Steppe pika
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Pallas’s pika with 4 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 4 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with 4.5 years
- Field vole with 3.25 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with 4 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 4.25 years
- Striped field mouse with 4 years
- Southern brown bandicoot with 3.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Steppe pika
What other animals weight around 143 grams (0.32 lbs)?
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat weighting 117 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel weighting 135 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby weighting 148 grams
- Mountain treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Short-furred dasyure weighting 161 grams
- Littledale’s whistling rat weighting 126 grams
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat weighting 170 grams
- Western dwarf squirrel weighting 120 grams
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat weighting 148 grams
- Jaliscan cotton rat weighting 120 grams
Animals with the same size as a Steppe pika
Also reaching around 15.7 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Cape York melomys gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tropical ground squirrel gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Collared tuco-tuco gets as big as 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Masked flying fox gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Komodo rat gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray mouse lemur gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-footed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)