How many baby Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rats are in a litter?
A Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat (Paramelomys mollis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Paramelomys). An adult Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat grows up to a size of 14.5 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:
- Golden-backed tree-rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Nectomys squamipes with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Oecomys paricola weighting only 73 grams
- Little native mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Large Luzon forest rat raching a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Phillips’s gerbil weighting only 127 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Ciscaucasian hamster with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Alston’s cotton rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Goldman’s woodrat with 1 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:
- Taiwan vole
- Common eland
- Sambar deer
- Burchell’s zebra
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
- Black wallaroo
- Brazilian brown bat
- Livingstone’s fruit bat
- Earless water rat
- Mentawai langur
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
What other animals weight around 90 grams (0.2 lbs)?
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- Bare-backed rousette weighting 92 grams
- Golden hamster weighting 98 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat weighting 85 grams
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur weighting 78 grams
- Philippine dawn bat weighting 78 grams
- African grass rat weighting 95 grams
- Ash-colored Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Northern pocket gopher weighting 105 grams
Animals with the same size as a Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
Also reaching around 14.5 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Tropical pocket gopher gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Eastern rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Vogelkop mountain rat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central rock rat gets as big as 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- One-striped opossum gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)