How many baby Whitehead’s spiny rats are in a litter?
A Whitehead’s spiny rat (Maxomys whiteheadi) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Maxomys). An adult Whitehead’s spiny rat grows up to a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Whitehead’s spiny rat (Maxomys whiteheadi) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Whitehead’s spiny rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Tawitawi forest rat raching a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat raching a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Greater stick-nest rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Peterson’s chinchilla mouse weighting only 83 grams
- Capricorn leaf-eared mouse weighting only 50 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy rock mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- North African gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Intelligent grass mouse weighting only 28 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Whitehead’s spiny rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Derby’s woolly opossum
- North African hedgehog
- Cape gerbil
- Eastern woodrat
- Savanna gerbil
- Bicolored musk shrew
- Collared pika
- Southern mole vole
- Smooth-coated otter
- Water opossum
Animals with the same weight as a Whitehead’s spiny rat
What other animals weight around 57 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Taiwan vole weighting 46 grams
- Transandinomys talamancae weighting 54 grams
- Temminck’s striped mouse weighting 60 grams
- Zempoaltepec weighting 58 grams
- Hylaeamys megacephalus weighting 57 grams
- Senegal gerbil weighting 60 grams
- Swift fruit bat weighting 66 grams
- Cabrera’s vole weighting 52 grams
- Spanish mole weighting 48 grams
- South African pouched mouse weighting 50 grams
Animals with the same size as a Whitehead’s spiny rat
Also reaching around 16.7 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Townsend’s ground squirrel gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Père David’s mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican woodrat gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser hamster-rat gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-footed treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Congo rope squirrel gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large mole gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gambian sun squirrel gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)