How many baby Woolly dormouses are in a litter?
A Woolly dormouse (Dryomys laniger) 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 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 199 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Myoxidae family (genus: Dryomys). An adult Woolly dormouse grows up to a size of 10.5 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 woolly dormouse (Dryomys laniger) is a species of rodent in the family Gliridae endemic to Turkey.
Other animals of the family Myoxidae
Woolly dormouse is a member of the Myoxidae, as are these animals:
- Christy’s dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Desert dormouse with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Lorrain dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese dormouse weighting only 31 grams
- Forest dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Woodland dormouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Asian garden dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Kellen’s dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hazel dormouse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Garden dormouse with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Woolly dormouse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Utah prairie dog
- Turkestan rat
- Western harvest mouse
- Nyika climbing mouse
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Red fox
- Panamint chipmunk
- Bushveld gerbil
- Kloss’s mole
- Spermophilus relictus
Animals with the same weight as a Woolly dormouse
What other animals weight around 25 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- New Guinea free-tailed bat weighting 26 grams
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse weighting 22 grams
- Zenker’s fruit bat weighting 21 grams
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat weighting 25 grams
- Blackish white-toothed shrew weighting 20 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat weighting 28 grams
- Lindbergh’s grass mouse weighting 26 grams
- Oligoryzomys flavescens weighting 21 grams
- Gray-tailed vole weighting 29 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting 21 grams
Animals with the same size as a Woolly dormouse
Also reaching around 10.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Steppe lemming gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Zempoaltepec gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)