How many baby Utah prairie dogs are in a litter?
A Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 15 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 25.4 cm (0′ 10″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Cynomys). An adult Utah prairie dog grows up to a size of 28.8 cm (1′ 0″).
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 Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens) is the smallest species of prairie dog, a member of the squirrel family of rodents native to the south central steppes of the US state of Utah.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Utah prairie dog is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mohave ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican fox squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tufted ground squirrel weighting around 1.35 kilograms (2.98 lbs)
- Tropical ground squirrel weighting only 155 grams
- Spotted ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Least chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Black and red bush squirrel weighting only 692 grams
- Whiskered flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Utah prairie dog
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- European water vole
- Rudd’s mouse
- Common vole
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Barbary striped grass mouse
- Kit fox
- California pocket mouse
- Olympic marmot
- Sody’s tree rat
- California vole
Animals with the same weight as a Utah prairie dog
What other animals weight around 900 grams (1.98 lbs)?
- New England cottontail weighting 814 grams
- Aotus infulatus weighting 800 grams
- Hershkovitz’s titi weighting 992 grams
- Lemur-like ringtail possum weighting 997 grams
- Long-tailed ground squirrel weighting 743 grams
- Striped polecat weighting 812 grams
- Tailless tenrec weighting 894 grams
- Peruvian night monkey weighting 800 grams
- Cuban solenodon weighting 806 grams
- Muskrat weighting 992 grams
Animals with the same size as a Utah prairie dog
Also reaching around 28.8 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Pied tamarin gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Golden lion tamarin gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Forest giant squirrel gets as big as 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-tailed prairie dog gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Western gray squirrel gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Peters’s squirrel gets as big as 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant white-tailed rat gets as big as 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black jackrabbit gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Pichi gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)