How many baby Western white-eared giant rats are in a litter?
A Western white-eared giant rat (Hyomys dammermani) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Hyomys). An adult Western white-eared giant rat grows up to a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″).
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 western white-eared giant rat (Hyomys dammermani) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Western white-eared giant rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Moss-forest rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Isarog striped shrew-rat weighting only 140 grams
- Western water rat raching a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern multimammate mouse with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Greater tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-toothed mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting only 49 grams
- Water vole (North America) with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Western white-eared giant rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Molossops planirostris
- New Caledonia blossom bat
- South Asian river dolphin
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat
- Père David’s vole
- Red acouchi
- Grévy’s zebra
- Sun-tailed monkey
- Banded palm civet
Animals with the same weight as a Western white-eared giant rat
What other animals weight around 932 grams (2.05 lbs)?
- Black-headed night monkey usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Black-bearded flying fox weighting 872 grams
- Northern greater galago weighting 812 grams
- Yellow-throated squirrel weighting 803 grams
- Gunnison’s prairie dog weighting 798 grams
- White-eared opossum usually reaching 1.03 kgs (2.27 lbs)
- Red-tailed sportive lemur weighting 763 grams
- Bahamian hutia weighting 912 grams
- Tres Marias rabbit weighting 964 grams
- Eastern barred bandicoot weighting 903 grams
Animals with the same size as a Western white-eared giant rat
Also reaching around 31 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Forest giant squirrel gets as big as 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot gets as big as 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Collie’s squirrel gets as big as 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Muskrat gets as big as 27.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern woolly lemur gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Tapeti gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-headed night monkey gets as big as 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel gets as big as 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Red-handed tamarin gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)