How many baby Yellow-necked mouses are in a litter?
A Yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 15 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 24 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Apodemus). An adult Yellow-necked mouse grows up to a size of 10.3 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 yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis), also called yellow-necked field mouse, yellow-necked wood mouse, and South China field mouse, is closely related to the wood mouse, with which it was long confused. It was only recognised as a separate species in 1894. It differs in its band of yellow fur around the neck and in having slightly larger ears and usually being slightly larger overall. Around 100 mm in length, it can climb trees and sometimes overwinters in houses. It is found mostly in mountainous areas of southern Europe, but extends north into parts of Scandinavia and Britain. It facilitates the spread of tick-borne encephalitis to humans and is a reservoir species for the Dobrava virus, a hantavirus that is responsible for causing haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Yellow-necked mouse is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat weighting only 148 grams
- Peters’s climbing rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sonoran harvest mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Highland brush mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sikkim rat with 10 babies per pregnancy
- Pleasant bolo mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Tamarisk jird with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bartels’s spiny rat weighting only 88 grams
- Cape gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Giluwe rat raching a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals that share a litter size with Yellow-necked mouse
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog
- Yellow ground squirrel
- Western jumping mouse
- Dalton’s mouse
- Shaw’s jird
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster
- Cutch rat
- Black rat
- Northern grass mouse
- Little Indian field mouse
Animals that get as old as a Yellow-necked mouse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Wood mouse with 4.33 years
- Long-legged myotis with 4.25 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with 4 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 4 years
- Lesser mole-rat with 4.5 years
- Lesser bamboo rat with 3.67 years
- Smith’s vole with 3.5 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 4 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Black-footed tree-rat with 3.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-necked mouse
What other animals weight around 31 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Grey dwarf hamster weighting 30 grams
- Brazilian shrew mouse weighting 36 grams
- Southern long-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Western jumping mouse weighting 27 grams
- Oligoryzomys nigripes weighting 29 grams
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse weighting 31 grams
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum weighting 36 grams
- Greater red musk shrew weighting 31 grams
- Heart-nosed bat weighting 26 grams
- Saunder’s vlei rat weighting 34 grams
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-necked mouse
Also reaching around 10.3 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Western chestnut mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pacific jumping mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese water shrew gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese shrew mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Madagascan flying fox gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern bog lemming gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)