How many baby Zempoaltepecs are in a litter?
A Zempoaltepec (Peromyscus melanocarpus) 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 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Peromyscus). An adult Zempoaltepec grows up to a size of 12.5 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 zempoaltepec (Peromyscus melanocarpus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Mexico.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Zempoaltepec is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Long-tailed mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-clawed mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Delicate mouse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Unexpected cotton rat weighting only 140 grams
- Master leaf-eared mouse weighting only 68 grams
- Santa Cruz mouse weighting only 21 grams
- Koford’s grass mouse weighting only 29 grams
- Musso’s fish-eating rat weighting only 40 grams
- Insular vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinea waterside rat weighting only 526 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Zempoaltepec
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Pel’s flying squirrel
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat
- Hinde’s rock rat
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec
- Jaguarundi
- Geoffroy’s cat
- Lion
- Spotted-necked otter
- Slender rat
Animals with the same weight as a Zempoaltepec
What other animals weight around 58 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Pohle’s fruit bat weighting 69 grams
- Bushy-tailed jird weighting 56 grams
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat weighting 47 grams
- Link rat weighting 57 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse weighting 62 grams
- Gracile tateril weighting 49 grams
- Oxymycterus hucucha weighting 67 grams
- Andean rat weighting 53 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum weighting 61 grams
- Senegal gerbil weighting 60 grams
Animals with the same size as a Zempoaltepec
Also reaching around 12.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Swift fruit bat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pocock’s highland rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guajira mouse opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stein’s paramelomys gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dollman’s melomys gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pink fairy armadillo gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Least forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robinson’s mouse opossum gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)