It is hard to guess what a Yellow-pine chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-pine chipmunk (Tamias amoenus) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Yellow-pine chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 5.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Yellow-pine chipmunks can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The yellow-pine chipmunk (Neotamias amoenus) is a species of order Rodentia in the family Sciuridae. It is found in western North America: parts of Canada and the United States.These chipmunks are normally found in brush-covered areas, and in California, they inhabit an elevation range of around 975 to 2,900 meters.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-pine chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Yellow ground squirrel with a weight of 779 grams
- Slender squirrel with a weight of 74 grams
- Smoky flying squirrel with a weight of 251 grams
- Arctic ground squirrel with a weight of 747 grams
- Yucatan squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a weight of 317 grams
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per litter
- Gambian sun squirrel with a weight of 248 grams
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a weight of 34 grams
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-pine chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias amoenus:
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Oryzomys gorgasi bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed climbing mouse bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys laticeps bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Red-nosed mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Greater bulldog bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Ammodile bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Transandinomys bolivaris bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Tschudi’s slender opossum bringing 41 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-pine chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow-pine chipmunk:
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Delicate slender opossum with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dayak fruit bat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow-pine chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Yellow-pine chipmunk:
- Red wolf
- Caucasian snow vole
- American pygmy shrew
- Little Indian field mouse
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Cape mole-rat
- Winter white dwarf hamster
- Middendorf’s vole
- Black rat
- Meadow jumping mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Yellow-pine chipmunk
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Yellow-pine chipmunk:
- Scaly-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- White-tailed rat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Rufous horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Greater bulldog bat with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years