How many baby Woosnam’s brush-furred rats are in a litter?
A Woosnam’s brush-furred rat (Lophuromys woosnami) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 32 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Lophuromys). An adult Woosnam’s brush-furred rat grows up to a size of 11.8 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 Woosnam’s brush-furred rat (Lophuromys woosnami) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Its natural habitat types include mountain forest clearings and bamboo forests.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Woosnam’s brush-furred rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Sonoran harvest mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gray tree rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern grasshopper mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gorongoza gerbil weighting only 119 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting only 60 grams
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- African wading rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Dark-tailed tree rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Homo sapiens
- Black-shanked douc
- Blyth’s vole
- Nyala
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Common minke whale
- Boodie
- Guam flying fox
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat
- African savanna hare
Animals with the same weight as a Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
What other animals weight around 42 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Dalton’s mouse weighting 34 grams
- Mount Apo forest mouse weighting 34 grams
- Woodland thicket rat weighting 42 grams
- Smith’s vole weighting 34 grams
- Chiapan deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Caatinga vesper mouse weighting 39 grams
- White-winged vampire bat weighting 36 grams
- Greater broad-nosed bat weighting 37 grams
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat weighting 44 grams
- Chinanteco deer mouse weighting 40 grams