How many baby Wood lemmings are in a litter?
A Wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Myopus). An adult Wood lemming grows up to a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″).
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 wood lemming (Myopus schisticolor) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae. It belongs to the rodent subfamily Arvicolinae, so is a relative of the voles, lemmings, and muskrats.It is found in the taiga biome of China, Finland, Mongolia, Norway, Russia, and Sweden.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Wood lemming is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Champion’s tree mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ash-grey mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Squirrel-toothed rat weighting only 511 grams
- Zempoaltepec with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern bog lemming with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Oligoryzomys microtis weighting only 22 grams
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tien Shan red-backed vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- European hamster with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Wood lemming
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Northern grass mouse
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Hispid cotton rat
- Yellow-necked mouse
- Slender shrew
- European rabbit
- Variegated squirrel
- Ural field mouse
- Middendorf’s vole
Animals that get as old as a Wood lemming
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1 years:
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1.08 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with 1 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with 1 years
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Myosorex varius with 1 years
- Crowned shrew with 1.08 years
- Meadow vole with 0.92 years
Animals with the same weight as a Wood lemming
What other animals weight around 30 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Cotton mouse weighting 27 grams
- White-tailed dunnart weighting 25 grams
- Graphiurus hueti weighting 30 grams
- Northern grasshopper mouse weighting 27 grams
- Crafty vesper mouse weighting 27 grams
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse weighting 27 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting 24 grams
- Lesser false vampire bat weighting 24 grams
- Theobald’s tomb bat weighting 36 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus weighting 25 grams