How many baby Van Deusen’s rats are in a litter?
A Van Deusen’s rat (Rattus vandeuseni) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4.67 kg (10.3 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Rattus). 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:
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting only 60 grams
- Oecomys trinitatis weighting only 73 grams
- Mindoro climbing rat raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Defua rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fly River water rat raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Steppe lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Lataste’s gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Taiga vole with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Guinean gerbil weighting only 102 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Van Deusen’s rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Slender rat
- Lesser bilby
- Cougar
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- African yellow bat
- Lesser bamboo rat
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Slender rat
- Canada lynx
- Glacier rat
Animals with the same weight as a Van Deusen’s rat
What other animals weight around 67 grams (0.15 lbs)?
- Togo mouse weighting 55 grams
- Sundevall’s jird weighting 69 grams
- Glacier rat weighting 66 grams
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa weighting 60 grams
- Oecomys superans weighting 73 grams
- Northern water rat weighting 54 grams
- Nephelomys keaysi weighting 58 grams
- Pohle’s fruit bat weighting 69 grams
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 73 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse weighting 77 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:
- Ochre bush squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cave nectar bat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hastings River mouse gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Garden dormouse gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-pine chipmunk gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-haired water rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Senegal bushbaby gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hottentot golden mole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)