How many baby Buller’s chipmunks are in a litter?
A Buller’s chipmunk (Tamias bulleri) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Buller’s chipmunk grows up to a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Buller’s chipmunk (Neotamias bulleri) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Buller’s chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Eastern chipmunk raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern Amazon red squirrel weighting only 700 grams
- California ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indochinese flying squirrel weighting only 227 grams
- Long-tailed ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Lodgepole chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Buller’s chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Ochre bush squirrel
- Pygmy marmoset
- Cape fox
- Gambian sun squirrel
- Desert pocket mouse
- Pouched gerbil
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Mayor’s mouse
- Feathertail glider
- Calamian deer
Animals with the same weight as a Buller’s chipmunk
What other animals weight around 100 grams (0.22 lbs)?
- Ruwenzori otter shrew weighting 112 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat weighting 85 grams
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat weighting 87 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 100 grams
- Golden Oldfield mouse weighting 88 grams
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat weighting 104 grams
- Slender treeshrew weighting 112 grams
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat weighting 90 grams
- San Quintin kangaroo rat weighting 84 grams
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat weighting 100 grams
Animals with the same size as a Buller’s chipmunk
Also reaching around 13.6 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Senegal bushbaby gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Zempoaltépec vole gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dollman’s melomys gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-bellied slender opossum gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian slender opossum gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser small-toothed rat gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Himalayan mole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)