How many baby Van Deusen’s rats are in a litter?
A Van Deusen’s rat (Stenomys vandeuseni) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Stenomys). An adult Van Deusen’s rat grows up to a size of 13.5 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.
Van Deusen’s rat (Rattus vandeuseni) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is endemic to the mountains of southeast Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Van Deusen’s rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Allen’s wood mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Short-haired water rat weighting only 33 grams
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys andinus weighting only 25 grams
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Emperor rat weighting around 1 kilograms (2.2 lbs)
- Painted big-eared mouse weighting only 51 grams
- Dollman’s melomys raching a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Oligoryzomys magellanicus weighting only 25 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Van Deusen’s rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Tayra
- Buffy-headed marmoset
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Western barbastelle
- Volcano rabbit
- Spotted linsang
- Hinde’s rock rat
- Indian hedgehog
- Southern Plains woodrat
- Himalayan striped squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Van Deusen’s rat
What other animals weight around 67 grams (0.15 lbs)?
- Dibbler weighting 72 grams
- Long-tailed fruit bat weighting 68 grams
- Angular hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Balkan snow vole weighting 56 grams
- Southern flying squirrel weighting 72 grams
- Small five-toed jerboa weighting 59 grams
- Big deer mouse weighting 71 grams
- Hainan gymnure weighting 58 grams
- Namaqua rock rat weighting 57 grams
- Western rock elephant shrew weighting 65 grams
Animals with the same size as a Van Deusen’s rat
Also reaching around 13.5 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Lodgepole chipmunk gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- California mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-collared chipmunk gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Blind mole gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow vole gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray mouse lemur gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Aztec mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser small-toothed rat gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)