How many baby Temminck’s flying squirrels are in a litter?
A Temminck’s flying squirrel (Petinomys setosus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 56 grams (0.12 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Petinomys). An adult Temminck’s flying squirrel grows up to a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Temminck’s flying squirrel (Petinomys setosus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Temminck’s flying squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel weighting only 250 grams
- Arrow flying squirrel weighting only 49 grams
- Barbary ground squirrel becoming 9 years old
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Zanj sun squirrel weighting only 347 grams
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel weighting only 130 grams
- Kinabalu squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Red and white giant flying squirrel weighting around 1.5 kilograms (3.31 lbs)
- Northern palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed marmot with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Temminck’s flying squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Humpback whale
- Silky anteater
- Atlantic bamboo rat
- Tufted deer
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat
- Guatemalan deer mouse
- Mauritian tomb bat
- Harpy fruit bat
- Yellow-bellied glider
Animals with the same weight as a Temminck’s flying squirrel
What other animals weight around 43 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Black-bellied fruit bat weighting 47 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat weighting 36 grams
- Rudd’s mouse weighting 35 grams
- Alpine chipmunk weighting 36 grams
- Guatemalan deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Dusky slender opossum weighting 46 grams
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat weighting 35 grams
- Macmillan’s thicket rat weighting 37 grams
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat weighting 48 grams
- Hooper’s mouse weighting 35 grams
Animals with the same size as a Temminck’s flying squirrel
Also reaching around 11.8 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Broad-striped dasyure gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn antechinus gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)