What is the maximal age a Delany’s mouse reaches?
An adult Delany’s mouse (Delanymys brooksi) usually gets as old as 2 years.
When born, they weight 122 grams (0.27 lbs) and measure 0.4 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Muridae family (genus: Delanymys), their offspring is 3 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 40 cm (1′ 4″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
Delany’s mouse or Delany’s swamp mouse (Delanymys brooksi) is a species of rodent in the family Nesomyidae. It is the only species in the genus Delanymys and the only extant member of subfamily Delanymyinae, which also contains the fossil genus Stenodontomys. It was previously placed in subfamily Petromyscinae, but it is apparently not closely related to Petromyscus. It is found in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland and swamps. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Delany’s mouse
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Muridae):
- Tamarisk jird with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Stein’s rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Golden hamster becoming 10 years old
- Mira climbing rat bringing the scale to 184 grams
- Dusky field rat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sody’s tree rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Giant naked-tailed rat with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pinyon mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Red spiny rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chihuahuan mouse bringing the scale to 40 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Delany’s mouse
With an average age of 2 years, Delany’s mouse are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat usually reaching 2 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy usually reaching 1.75 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster usually reaching 1.75 years
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat usually reaching 2 years
- Vagrant shrew usually reaching 2.08 years
- Cinereus shrew usually reaching 1.92 years
- Grant’s golden mole usually reaching 2 years
- Norway lemming usually reaching 2 years
- Honey possum usually reaching 2 years
- Malabar spiny dormouse usually reaching 1.67 years
Animals with the same number of babies Delany’s mouse
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Red rock rat
- Elias’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Woodland dormouse
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Stella wood mouse
- Alpine pine vole
- Delectable soft-furred mouse
- Southern flying squirrel
Weighting as much as Delany’s mouse
A fully grown Delany’s mouse reaches around 4 grams (0.01 lbs). So do these animals:
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat with 4 grams
- Dent’s shrew with 4 grams
- Elegant myotis with 4 grams
- Maclaud’s horseshoe bat with 4 grams
- Indian pipistrelle with 4 grams
- Yellow-lipped bat with 4 grams
- Black-winged little yellow bat with 4 grams
- Little yellow bat with 4 grams
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat with 4 grams
- Doucet’s musk shrew with 4 grams