How many baby Subalpine woolly rats are in a litter?
A Subalpine woolly rat (Mallomys istapantap) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.1 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Mallomys). An adult Subalpine woolly rat grows up to a size of 41.7 cm (1′ 5″).
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 subalpine woolly rat (Mallomys istapantap) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Subalpine woolly rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Andean leaf-eared mouse weighting only 53 grams
- Tondano rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Chiruromys lamia with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Splendid climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Major’s pine vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Libyan jird with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Capricorn leaf-eared mouse weighting only 50 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Subalpine woolly rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Banded palm civet
- Ribbon seal
- Lesser kudu
- Bonobo
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Little yellow bat
- Cave nectar bat
- Herbert River ringtail possum
Animals with the same weight as a Subalpine woolly rat
What other animals weight around 1.99 kg (4.39 lbs)?
- Pel’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Riverine rabbit usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Granada hare usually reaching 2.33 kgs (5.14 lbs)
- Aquatic genet usually reaching 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 1.9 kgs (4.19 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Long-footed potoroo usually reaching 1.84 kgs (4.06 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus usually reaching 1.63 kgs (3.59 lbs)
- Silky cuscus usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Banded hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.94 kgs (4.28 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Subalpine woolly rat
Also reaching around 41.7 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Robust cottontail gets as big as 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Rüppell’s fox gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Common spotted cuscus gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Golden bandicoot gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Meller’s mongoose gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tufted capuchin gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Coppery titi gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Amami rabbit gets as big as 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)