How many baby Woodland thicket rats are in a litter?
A Woodland thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus) 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 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Grammomys). An adult Woodland thicket rat grows up to a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″).
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 thicket rat (Grammomys dolichurus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, and urban areas.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Woodland thicket rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Tanezumi rat weighting only 140 grams
- Isabel naked-tailed rat raching a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Miller’s striped mouse weighting only 49 grams
- Maned rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse weighting only 35 grams
- White-footed vole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian bush rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting only 28 grams
- Eastern shrew mouse weighting only 16 grams
- Poncelet’s giant rat weighting around 1 kilograms (2.2 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Woodland thicket rat
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Woodland dormouse
- Desert kangaroo rat
- Kaiser’s rock rat
- Chilean rock rat
- Russian desman
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
- Red rock rat
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse
- Numbat
- Rock vole
Animals that get as old as a Woodland thicket rat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4.33 years:
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with 5.17 years
- Saharan striped polecat with 5 years
- Small Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 4 years
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 5 years
- Val’s gundi with 5 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with 4.33 years
- Acacia rat with 3.5 years
- Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland thicket rat
What other animals weight around 42 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Hatt’s vesper rat weighting 36 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis weighting 38 grams
- Brazilian slender opossum weighting 38 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 43 grams
- Dolorous grass mouse weighting 50 grams
- Hispid pocket mouse weighting 35 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes weighting 34 grams
- Neuquén grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse weighting 35 grams
- Defua rat weighting 43 grams
Animals with the same size as a Woodland thicket rat
Also reaching around 11 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Northern hopping mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern collared lemming gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dayak fruit bat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chacoan pygmy opossum gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- California mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sandstone false antechinus gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan shrew gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)