How many baby Woodland jumping mouses are in a litter?
A Woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 23 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dipodidae family (genus: Napaeozapus). An adult Woodland jumping mouse grows up to a size of 9 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 woodland jumping mouse (Napaeozapus insignis) is a species of jumping mouse found in North America. Its Latin name means glen or wooded dell + big or strong feet + a distinguishing mark. This mammal can jump up to 3 m (9.8 ft) using its extremely strong feet and long tail.
Other animals of the family Dipodidae
Woodland jumping mouse is a member of the Dipodidae, as are these animals:
- Northern three-toed jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Severtzov’s jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small five-toed jerboa with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western jumping mouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Gobi jerboa with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Northern birch mouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Woodland jumping mouse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse
- Hoary marmot
- Gracile tateril
- Madras treeshrew
- Dhole
- North African gerbil
- Indian gerbil
- Peromyscus maniculatus
- Lodgepole chipmunk
- Japanese grass vole
Animals that get as old as a Woodland jumping mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Black myotis with 3.5 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 4 years
- Black-footed tree-rat with 3.83 years
- Acacia rat with 3.5 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 4 years
- Greater cane rat with 4.25 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with 4.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland jumping mouse
What other animals weight around 22 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Pearson’s chaco mouse weighting 25 grams
- Aberdare mole shrew weighting 23 grams
- Sinaloan mastiff bat weighting 22 grams
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew weighting 18 grams
- Crocidura grandiceps weighting 23 grams
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 23 grams
- Olive grass mouse weighting 19 grams
- Carriker’s round-eared bat weighting 22 grams
- Hill’s sheath-tailed bat weighting 22 grams
- Abrothrix andinus weighting 18 grams
Animals with the same size as a Woodland jumping mouse
Also reaching around 9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Chiriqui harvest mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Montane grass mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Northern gracile opossum gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Smith’s shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big-eared woolly bat gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pacific jumping mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Monito del monte gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)