How many baby Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat (Melomys mollis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Melomys). An adult Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys mollis) 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
Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Scolomys ucayalensis weighting only 26 grams
- Oecomys trinitatis weighting only 73 grams
- Mountain water rat raching a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-tailed tree rat weighting only 125 grams
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse weighting only 17 grams
- Slender rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Zacatecan deer mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil weighting only 38 grams
- Northern mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Zygodontomys brevicauda with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bongo (antelope)
- Voalavoanala
- Goa (antelope)
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo
- Brazilian big-eyed bat
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Javan surili
- Arabian gazelle
- Shiny guinea pig
- Silver-haired bat
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 90 grams (0.2 lbs)?
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Venezuelan climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Siskiyou chipmunk weighting 75 grams
- Bartels’s spiny rat weighting 88 grams
- Greater nectar bat weighting 72 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel weighting 104 grams
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse weighting 83 grams
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- California kangaroo rat weighting 85 grams
- Charming climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
Animals with the same size as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 14.3 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Stephen’s woodrat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sepia short-tailed opossum gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Palawan spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Desert woodrat gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky hopping mouse gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pseudoryzomys gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)