How many baby Black flying squirrels are in a litter?
A Black flying squirrel (Aeromys tephromelas) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5.24 kg (11.55 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Aeromys). An adult Black flying squirrel grows up to a size of 38 cm (1′ 3″).
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 black flying squirrel or large black flying squirrel (Aeromys tephromelas) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia; its habitat is primary and secondary forests and gardens where it uses tree hollows. It feeds on fruits, nuts and other vegetable matter. It is likely not threatened and is adaptable to habitat loss. Black flying squirrels tend to have smaller populations than other squirrels because female black flying squirrels breed infrequently and have a small litter size of just one young.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Black flying squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Belding’s ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s squirrel weighting only 650 grams
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel weighting only 250 grams
- Whiskered flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spermophilus relictus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Barbary ground squirrel becoming 9 years old
- Spotted ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Durango chipmunk with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Piute ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Horse-tailed squirrel weighting only 358 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Black flying squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Indian muntjac
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Bawean deer
- King colobus
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- Barbary sheep
- Asinus
- Jamaican fruit bat
- Hammer-headed bat
- Spectacled hare-wallaby
Animals with the same weight as a Black flying squirrel
What other animals weight around 1.19 kg (2.62 lbs)?
- Northern bettong usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Greater bilby usually reaching 1.23 kgs (2.71 lbs)
- Big-eared opossum usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose usually reaching 1.3 kgs (2.87 lbs)
- Ashy black titi weighting 992 grams
- Common opossum usually reaching 1.14 kgs (2.51 lbs)
- Blanford’s fox weighting 994 grams
- Banded palm civet usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Black-headed night monkey usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Ring-tailed cat usually reaching 1.02 kgs (2.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black flying squirrel
Also reaching around 38 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel gets as big as 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tiger quoll gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black-footed ferret gets as big as 39.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Slender mongoose gets as big as 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Sable gets as big as 45.1 cm (1′ 6″)
- Eastern common cuscus gets as big as 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Clara’s echymipera gets as big as 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo gets as big as 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Chinese ferret-badger gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Angolan talapoin gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)