How many baby Slender squirrels are in a litter?
A Slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sundasciurus). An adult Slender squirrel grows up to a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″).
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 slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is arboreal and found in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The body is brown on the upper parts and light grey on the underparts. The body measures about 13–16 cm, with a slightly shorter slender tail. It feeds on soft bark, fruits and insects.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Slender squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Indian palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting around 1.16 kilograms (2.56 lbs)
- Santander dwarf squirrel weighting only 99 grams
- Arrow flying squirrel weighting only 49 grams
- Cliff chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hagen’s flying squirrel raching a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Yellow ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Ribboned rope squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Slender squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Fat sand rat
- Vancouver Island marmot
- Nephelomys albigularis
- Transbaikal zokor
- Mountain pygmy possum
- Small Japanese mole
- Southern mole vole
- Water deer
- Cheetah
- Asian house shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Slender squirrel
What other animals weight around 74 grams (0.16 lbs)?
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse weighting 67 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting 79 grams
- Durango chipmunk weighting 85 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse weighting 69 grams
- Oecomys speciosus weighting 73 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat weighting 67 grams
- Big-eared kangaroo rat weighting 78 grams
- Lodgepole chipmunk weighting 60 grams
- Oecomys phaeotis weighting 73 grams
- Goliath shrew weighting 87 grams
Animals with the same size as a Slender squirrel
Also reaching around 16.8 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Père David’s mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Maxomys baeodon gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Komodo rat gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Slender rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Three-striped dasyure gets as big as 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ladak pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)