How many baby Yellow-spotted brush-furred rats are in a litter?
A Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat (Lophuromys flavopunctatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Lophuromys). An adult Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat grows up to a size of 12.2 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-spotted brush-furred rat (Lophuromys flavopunctatus) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Zambia.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland. The population in Ethiopia is isolated and can be found at high altitudes up to 4,500 m above sea level.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Bushveld gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Savanna gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Polynesian rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Temminck’s striped mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern African vlei rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Plains rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Moss-forest rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- True’s vole
- Big deer mouse
- Plantain squirrel
- Unalaska collared lemming
- Cacomistle
- Red hocicudo
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Common echymipera
- Southern pocket gopher
- Greater bilby
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
What other animals weight around 57 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Coast mole weighting 61 grams
- Shining thicket rat weighting 50 grams
- Red mouse opossum weighting 63 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat weighting 50 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby weighting 66 grams
- Handleyomys intectus weighting 60 grams
- Argentine hocicudo weighting 67 grams
- Crab-eating rat weighting 66 grams
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum weighting 52 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting 56 grams
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
Also reaching around 12.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ord’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Guam flying fox gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central rock rat gets as big as 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-sided opossum gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)