How many baby Woodland dormouses are in a litter?
A Woodland dormouse (Graphiurus murinus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Myoxidae family (genus: Graphiurus). An adult Woodland dormouse grows up to a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 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 woodland dormouse (Graphiurus murinus) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae. It is native to southern and eastern Africa and is also known as the African dormouse, African dwarf dormouse, African pygmy dormouse, or colloquially as micro squirrel. Found in limited numbers in the pet trade, it has complicated care requirements compared to other pet rodents. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical, moist montane forests and rivers.
Other animals of the family Myoxidae
Woodland dormouse is a member of the Myoxidae, as are these animals:
- Rock dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Graphiurus hueti with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese dormouse weighting only 31 grams
- Edible dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Garden dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Woodland dormouse
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Neacomys tenuipes
- Western mouse
- Mountain pocket gopher
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Eastern woodrat
- Pampas fox
- Yellow-throated marten
- Cape golden mole
- Southern grasshopper mouse
Animals that get as old as a Woodland dormouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.75 years:
- White-tailed rat with 6 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Canyon bat with 6 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with 5.58 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with 5 years
- White-bellied duiker with 5.25 years
- African striped weasel with 5.17 years
- Spectral bat with 6.5 years
- Abbott’s duiker with 5.42 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with 4.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland dormouse
What other animals weight around 20 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Mediterranean pine vole weighting 22 grams
- Intermediate roundleaf bat weighting 19 grams
- Schultz’s round-eared bat weighting 17 grams
- Algerian mouse weighting 16 grams
- Grant’s golden mole weighting 22 grams
- Northern freetail bat weighting 20 grams
- Red tree vole weighting 22 grams
- Woodland jumping mouse weighting 22 grams
- Brown tent-making bat weighting 17 grams
- Bogotá yellow-shouldered bat weighting 19 grams
Animals with the same size as a Woodland dormouse
Also reaching around 7.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Woodland jumping mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Horsfield’s shrew gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- True’s shrew mole gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese shrew mole gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common shrew gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)