How many baby Wood mouses are in a litter?
A Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 15 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Apodemus). An adult Wood mouse grows up to a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″).
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 mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) is a murid rodent native to Europe and northwestern Africa. It is closely related to the yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) but differs in that it has no band of yellow fur around the neck, has slightly smaller ears, and is usually slightly smaller overall: around 90 mm (3.54 in) in length and 23 g in weight. It is found across most of Europe and is a very common and widespread species, is commensal with people and is sometimes considered a pest. Other common names are long-tailed field mouse, field mouse, common field mouse, and European wood mouse.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Wood mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Eversmann’s hamster with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Indian bush rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tawitawi forest rat raching a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ryukyu mouse weighting only 14 grams
- Stirton’s deer mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Persian jird with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Edward’s swamp rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Guatemalan deer mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Andean vesper mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Wood mouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Buxton’s jird
- Norway lemming
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Ural field mouse
- Little Indian field mouse
- Daurian pika
- Arctic hare
- Rufous mouse opossum
- Dark bolo mouse
- Olive grass mouse
Animals that get as old as a Wood mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4.33 years:
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Yellow-necked mouse with 4 years
- Desert hedgehog with 4.5 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat with 5 years
- Desert hedgehog with 4.5 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Cave nectar bat with 5 years
- Long-legged myotis with 4.25 years
- Sandhill dunnart with 5 years
- Lesser bamboo rat with 3.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Wood mouse
What other animals weight around 21 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- White-lined broad-nosed bat weighting 24 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting 18 grams
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse weighting 20 grams
- Northern bog lemming weighting 21 grams
- Steppe field mouse weighting 20 grams
- Louise’s spiny mouse weighting 20 grams
- Brown tent-making bat weighting 17 grams
- Goldman’s nectar bat weighting 21 grams
- Egyptian tomb bat weighting 24 grams
- Altiplano grass mouse weighting 20 grams
Animals with the same size as a Wood mouse
Also reaching around 8.7 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Steppe lemming gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Desert mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Least pygmy squirrel gets as big as 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sinaloan pocket mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Short-nosed harvest mouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mauritian tomb bat gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)