How many baby Richmond’s squirrels are in a litter?
A Richmond’s squirrel (Sciurus richmondi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sciurus). An adult Richmond’s squirrel grows up to a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Richmond’s squirrel (Sciurus richmondi) is a poorly known tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to Nicaragua, which is likely a synonym of the Red-tailed squirrel (Notosciurus granatensis). It is locally known as the ardilla del rama.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Richmond’s squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Jungle palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Baja California rock squirrel weighting only 551 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Palmer’s chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Small sun squirrel weighting only 174 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel weighting only 135 grams
- Hopi chipmunk weighting only 53 grams
- Bobak marmot with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Richmond’s squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Tayra
- Chiruromys lamia
- Bushpig
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Reindeer
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Pouched gerbil
- Northern yellow bat
Animals with the same weight as a Richmond’s squirrel
What other animals weight around 237 grams (0.52 lbs)?
- Northeast African mole-rat weighting 227 grams
- Tamaulipan woodrat weighting 198 grams
- Nelson’s woodrat weighting 198 grams
- Long-haired rat weighting 221 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher weighting 263 grams
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat weighting 221 grams
- Ochre mole-rat weighting 200 grams
- Temotu flying fox weighting 274 grams
- Banks flying fox weighting 210 grams
- Grey-bellied squirrel weighting 265 grams
Animals with the same size as a Richmond’s squirrel
Also reaching around 19.4 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Rajah spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mountain spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-eared hedgehog gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Luzon striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-striped squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mouse bandicoot gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)