How many baby Temminck’s mouses are in a litter?
A Temminck’s mouse (Mus musculoides) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Mus). An adult Temminck’s mouse grows up to a size of 6.1 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.
Temminck’s mouse (Mus musculoides) is a species of the genus Mus and of the subgenus Nannomys. It is found throughout West Africa, Central Africa, and East Africa. An adult generally weighs 0.006 kg.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Temminck’s mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Central rock rat weighting only 100 grams
- Allen’s wood mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Transcaucasian mole vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Splendid climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Taiwan field mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse weighting only 53 grams
- Common vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Charming climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat raching a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals that share a litter size with Temminck’s mouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- North African hedgehog
- Père David’s mole
- Creeping vole
- Aztec mouse
- Black-eared mouse
- Desert hedgehog
- Allen’s wood mouse
- Comb-toed jerboa
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Irenomys
Animals with the same weight as a Temminck’s mouse
What other animals weight around 8 grams (0.02 lbs)?
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting 7 grams
- Indiana bat weighting 7 grams
- Kenyan wattled bat weighting 7 grams
- Rufous mouse-eared bat weighting 7 grams
- Lander’s horseshoe bat weighting 9 grams
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle weighting 8 grams
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle weighting 7 grams
- Baird’s shrew weighting 8 grams
- Rhinolophus sedulus weighting 8 grams
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat weighting 7 grams
Animals with the same size as a Temminck’s mouse
Also reaching around 6.1 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse gets as big as 5.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jamaican flower bat gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Delicate vesper mouse gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fringed myotis gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little desert pocket mouse gets as big as 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Short-nosed harvest mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)