How many baby Voalavoanalas are in a litter?
A Voalavoanala (Gymnuromys roberti) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 86 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 15.7 cm (0′ 7″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Gymnuromys). An adult Voalavoanala grows up to a size of 14.2 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.
The voalavoanala (Gymnuromys roberti) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is the only species in the genus Gymnuromys. It is found only in Madagascar. Its natural habitat is tropical dry forests.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Voalavoanala is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Big-headed African mole-rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western pebble-mound mouse weighting only 10 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut white-bellied rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat becoming 2 years old
- Transandinomys talamancae weighting only 54 grams
- Transandinomys bolivaris with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Intelligent grass mouse weighting only 28 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Voalavoanala
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
- Pennant’s colobus
- East Caucasian tur
- Indian flying fox
- African buffalo
- Pale spear-nosed bat
- Gray brocket
- Tammar wallaby
- Harp seal
- Indri
Animals with the same weight as a Voalavoanala
What other animals weight around 97 grams (0.21 lbs)?
- Kowari weighting 109 grams
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat weighting 85 grams
- Charming climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Biak glider weighting 90 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting 79 grams
- Candango mouse weighting 97 grams
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 82 grams
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 95 grams
- Southern three-striped opossum weighting 112 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil weighting 95 grams
Animals with the same size as a Voalavoanala
Also reaching around 14.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Long-tailed mountain rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- California vole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palawan spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Champion’s tree mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-toothed mouse gets as big as 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Buller’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- European mole gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)