How many baby Striped field mouses are in a litter?
A Striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 15 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 19 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Apodemus). An adult Striped field mouse grows up to a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″).
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 striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius) is a rodent in the family Muridae. The range of this species stretches from Eastern Europe to Eastern Asia.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Striped field mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Japanese grass vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ungava collared lemming with 3 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinea waterside rat weighting only 526 grams
- Mexican vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Yucatan deer mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Akodon budini weighting only 26 grams
- Bagobo rat weighting only 395 grams
- Transandinomys talamancae weighting only 54 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Striped field mouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Lowland streaked tenrec
- Pale field rat
- Eurasian harvest mouse
- Dalton’s mouse
- Norway lemming
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
- Paucident planigale
- Sandhill dunnart
- Douglas squirrel
- Water vole (North America)
Animals that get as old as a Striped field mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Siberian flying squirrel with 3.75 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- Small Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Great Basin pocket mouse with 4 years
- Long-legged myotis with 4.25 years
- Desert hedgehog with 4.5 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with 3.25 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with 4.5 years
- Kultarr with 3.25 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Striped field mouse
What other animals weight around 21 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 23 grams
- One-toothed shrew mouse weighting 21 grams
- Least forest mouse weighting 21 grams
- Santa Cruz mouse weighting 21 grams
- Oligoryzomys griseolus weighting 25 grams
- Akodon azarae weighting 25 grams
- Parantechinus bilarni weighting 23 grams
- Little desert pocket mouse weighting 23 grams
- European pine vole weighting 17 grams
- Black-capped fruit bat weighting 17 grams