How many baby Prevost’s squirrels are in a litter?
A Prevost’s squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 46 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 16 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Callosciurus). An adult Prevost’s squirrel grows up to a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″).
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.
Prevost’s squirrel or Asian tri-colored squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) is a colourful species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and nearby smaller islands, with an introduced population in northern Sulawesi. Although the Prevost’s squirrel is declining is some regions because of habitat loss and hunting, the species is not considered threatened since it generally remains common and widespread. It can live in somewhat disturbed habitats and often visits plantations or gardens. It mostly feeds on plant material, especially fruits, but also takes insects.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Prevost’s squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Northern palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Andean squirrel weighting only 803 grams
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Lunda rope squirrel weighting only 135 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Vancouver Island marmot with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Travancore flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sonoma chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Prevost’s squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
- Stump-tailed macaque
- Moustached tamarin
- Red goral
- Common tsessebe
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Japanese serow
- Michoacan deer mouse
- Mediterranean monk seal
Animals that get as old as a Prevost’s squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.67 years:
- European water vole with 5 years
- Numbat with 6 years
- Virginia opossum with 5 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 5 years
- Plains rat with 5.58 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with 5.33 years
- House mouse with 6 years
- White-tailed rat with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Prevost’s squirrel
What other animals weight around 400 grams (0.88 lbs)?
- Southern African hedgehog weighting 337 grams
- Eastern small-toothed rat weighting 357 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel weighting 333 grams
- Greater stick-nest rat weighting 329 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting 465 grams
- Pygmy spotted skunk weighting 365 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat weighting 398 grams
- Black-headed marmoset weighting 401 grams
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy weighting 361 grams
- Golden bandicoot weighting 425 grams
Animals with the same size as a Prevost’s squirrel
Also reaching around 24.7 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Isabel naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Variegated squirrel gets as big as 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Cape dune mole-rat gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Florida naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat gets as big as 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Oncilla gets as big as 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pallas’s squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Numbat gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern glider gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)