How many baby Typical striped grass mouses are in a litter?
A Typical striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys striatus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 25 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Lemniscomys). An adult Typical striped grass mouse grows up to a size of 10.2 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.
The typical striped grass mouse (Lemniscomys striatus) is a small rodent of the suborder Myomorpha in the family Muridae.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Typical striped grass mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Verreaux’s mouse weighting only 41 grams
- Ruschi’s rat weighting only 63 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Garlepp’s mouse weighting only 59 grams
- Southern pygmy mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat weighting around 1.75 kilograms (3.86 lbs)
- Stirton’s deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small hocicudo weighting only 67 grams
- Scolomys ucayalensis weighting only 26 grams
- Lesser mole-rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Typical striped grass mouse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Marsh rice rat
- Boehm’s gerbil
- Lataste’s gerbil
- Groundhog
- Plains pocket mouse
- Pacific shrew
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse
- Ningbing false antechinus
- Woodland jumping mouse
Animals that get as old as a Typical striped grass mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.5 years:
- Delany’s mouse with 2 years
- Swamp antechinus with 2 years
- Ooldea dunnart with 3 years
- Fawn antechinus with 2.25 years
- New Guinean quoll with 3 years
- Merriam’s pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with 2.83 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 2.67 years
- Star-nosed mole with 3 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 2.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Typical striped grass mouse
What other animals weight around 43 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Black-eared mouse weighting 39 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart weighting 35 grams
- Brucepattersonius iheringi weighting 43 grams
- Thomas’s water mouse weighting 40 grams
- Hairy fruit-eating bat weighting 40 grams
- Tarabundí vole weighting 36 grams
- Mexican water mouse weighting 40 grams
- Silent grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Greater bulldog bat weighting 45 grams
- Large vesper mouse weighting 45 grams
Animals with the same size as a Typical striped grass mouse
Also reaching around 10.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Soft-furred Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Burt’s deer mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chestnut dunnart gets as big as 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Black-bellied fruit bat gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western heather vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)