How many baby Transandinomys bolivariss are in a litter?
A Transandinomys bolivaris (Oryzomys bolivaris) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12.07 kg (26.61 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Oryzomys). An adult Transandinomys bolivaris grows up to a size of 11.6 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.
Transandinomys bolivaris, also known as the long-whiskered rice rat, is a rodent in the genus Transandinomys. It is found in humid forest from northeastern Honduras to western Ecuador, up to 1,800 m (5,900 ft) above sea level. Since it was first described in 1901 from Ecuador, six scientific names have been introduced for it, but their common identity was not documented until 1998 and the species has long been known under the name Oryzomys bombycinus, described from Panama in 1912. The name Oryzomys bolivaris was used before it was moved to the new genus Transandinomys with Transandinomys talamancae (formerly Oryzomys talamancae) in 2006.It is a medium-sized rice rat distinguished by its very long vibrissae (whiskers)—those above the eyes are up to 50 mm (2 in) long. The fur, which is soft and dense, is usually dark brown above and light gray below; it is darker in juveniles. The feet are long and the tail is about as long as the head and body. The skull is narrow and has a broad interorbital region (between the eyes). The species generally lives on the ground. Although it is rare, its conservation status is thought to be secure.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Transandinomys bolivaris is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Darling Downs hopping mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Oligoryzomys flavescens with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser tree mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat raching a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Darien harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Northern collared lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
- São Paulo grass mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Gregarious short-tailed rat weighting only 92 grams
- Soft grass mouse weighting only 30 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Transandinomys bolivaris
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Oldfield mouse
- Painted spiny pocket mouse
- Neotropical otter
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
- Emin’s gerbil
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse
- Allen’s wood mouse
- Fisher (animal)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
- Desert warthog
Animals with the same weight as a Transandinomys bolivaris
What other animals weight around 60 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Nephelomys auriventer weighting 60 grams
- Gray slender opossum weighting 54 grams
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat weighting 63 grams
- Palmer’s chipmunk weighting 60 grams
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole weighting 56 grams
- Dibbler weighting 72 grams
- Blind mole weighting 70 grams
- South African pouched mouse weighting 50 grams
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat weighting 59 grams
- Pel’s pouched bat weighting 53 grams
Animals with the same size as a Transandinomys bolivaris
Also reaching around 11.6 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Cave nectar bat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Djoongari gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Parantechinus bilarni gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiruromys lamia gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Montane vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coast mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)