How many baby Temminck’s striped mouses are in a litter?
A Temminck’s striped mouse (Hybomys trivirgatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 654 grams (1.44 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Hybomys). An adult Temminck’s striped mouse grows up to a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 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.
Temminck’s striped mouse or West African hybomys (Hybomys trivirgatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Temminck’s striped mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Guinean gerbil weighting only 103 grams
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine woolly rat weighting around 2.04 kilograms (4.5 lbs)
- Akodon budini weighting only 26 grams
- Günther’s vole with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bush rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Andean vesper mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse weighting only 42 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Temminck’s striped mouse
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat
- Southern spiny pocket mouse
- Canada lynx
- Epixerus
- False water rat
- American marten
- Unalaska collared lemming
- California red tree mouse
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Temminck’s striped mouse
What other animals weight around 60 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting 49 grams
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat weighting 49 grams
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli weighting 62 grams
- Melanomys zunigae weighting 53 grams
- Lodgepole chipmunk weighting 60 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat weighting 61 grams
- Bushveld elephant shrew weighting 48 grams
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat weighting 71 grams
- Gray leaf-eared mouse weighting 68 grams
- Brown mouse lemur weighting 48 grams
Animals with the same size as a Temminck’s striped mouse
Also reaching around 12.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-pine chipmunk gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Highland brush mouse gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain pygmy possum gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Star-nosed mole gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cotton mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape golden mole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)