How many baby Red-legged sun squirrels are in a litter?
A Red-legged sun squirrel (Heliosciurus rufobrachium) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Heliosciurus). An adult Red-legged sun squirrel grows up to a size of 23.8 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.
The red-legged sun squirrel (Heliosciurus rufobrachium) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, also commonly known as the crab-eating mongoose and the isabelline red-legged sun squirrel. It is native to tropical western and central Africa where its range extends from Senegal in the west, through Nigeria and the Republic of Congo to Uganda and Tanzania in the east. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and moist savanna. This species is thought to be common and has a very wide distribution, so the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Red-legged sun squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Forest giant squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Amazon dwarf squirrel weighting only 92 grams
- Mountain ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel weighting only 109 grams
- Eastern gray squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Arizona gray squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ear-spot squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- American red squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Lodgepole chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-legged sun squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Lion
- Snow leopard
- Eastern long-eared bat
- Buller’s chipmunk
- Ruddy mongoose
- Maned wolf
- Tome’s spiny rat
- White-throated woodrat
- Florida mouse
- Black-striped squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Red-legged sun squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8.83 years:
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with 8 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 8 years
- Snowshoe hare with 8 years
- Cape gray mongoose with 8.67 years
- Congo rope squirrel with 9.5 years
- Long-tailed weasel with 7.08 years
- Marbled polecat with 8.92 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with 10.17 years
- Red-necked pademelon with 9 years
- Florida mouse with 7.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-legged sun squirrel
What other animals weight around 333 grams (0.73 lbs)?
- Guyenne spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Bower’s white-toothed rat weighting 355 grams
- Vanuatu flying fox weighting 396 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Sulawesi flying fox weighting 383 grams
- Silvery marmoset weighting 376 grams
- European ground squirrel weighting 396 grams
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Pygmy spotted skunk weighting 365 grams
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting 296 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red-legged sun squirrel
Also reaching around 23.8 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Derby’s woolly opossum gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Greater dwarf lemur gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red slender loris gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Greater grison gets as big as 25.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Franklin’s ground squirrel gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pied tamarin gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Painted ringtail possum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)