How many baby Transbaikal zokors are in a litter?
A Transbaikal zokor (Myospalax psilurus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Myospalax). An adult Transbaikal zokor grows up to a size of 6.9 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.
The Transbaikal zokor (Myospalax psilurus) is a species of rodents in the family Spalacidae. It is found in China, Mongolia, and Russia.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Transbaikal zokor is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Venezuelan climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Unalaska collared lemming with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bavarian pine vole raching a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Akodon budini weighting only 26 grams
- Smoky mouse weighting only 68 grams
- Oecomys trinitatis weighting only 73 grams
- Nelson’s woodrat weighting only 198 grams
- Beady-eyed mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with 7 babies per pregnancy
- One-toothed shrew mouse weighting only 21 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Transbaikal zokor
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Nelson’s pocket mouse
- Bolivian big-eared mouse
- Japanese shrew mole
- American hog-nosed skunk
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
- Darien harvest mouse
- Fulvous harvest mouse
- Lesser hamster-rat
- Capybara
- Djoongari
Animals with the same weight as a Transbaikal zokor
What other animals weight around 259 grams (0.57 lbs)?
- Chinese zokor weighting 256 grams
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting 278 grams
- Brandt’s hedgehog weighting 213 grams
- Emilia’s marmoset weighting 309 grams
- Brandt’s hedgehog weighting 213 grams
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat weighting 304 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat weighting 226 grams
- Big-eared woodrat weighting 225 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher weighting 266 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams