How many baby Least chipmunks are in a litter?
A Least chipmunk (Tamias minimus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 29 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Least chipmunk grows up to a size of 11.1 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.
The least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus) is the smallest species of chipmunk and the most widespread in North America.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Least chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Smith’s bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Javanese flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese squirrel weighting only 264 grams
- Long-eared chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Olympic marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Santander dwarf squirrel weighting only 99 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Least chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Akodon boliviensis
- Turkestan rat
- Sandstone false antechinus
- Gray four-eyed opossum
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum
- Greater stripe-backed shrew
- Senegal gerbil
- Eastern cottontail
- Visayan warty pig
- Libyan jird
Animals that get as old as a Least chipmunk
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6.25 years:
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with 5.83 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with 5 years
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Long-tailed dunnart with 5 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with 5.17 years
- California ground squirrel with 5 years
- Dark kangaroo mouse with 5.42 years
- Greater bulldog bat with 5.75 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Least chipmunk
What other animals weight around 42 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Naked-rumped pouched bat weighting 43 grams
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse weighting 43 grams
- Northern grass mouse weighting 44 grams
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse weighting 43 grams
- Jico deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Short-snouted elephant shrew weighting 45 grams
- Fat-tailed gerbil weighting 47 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse weighting 35 grams
- Macmillan’s thicket rat weighting 37 grams
- Western mouse weighting 34 grams
Animals with the same size as a Least chipmunk
Also reaching around 11.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Long-nosed dasyure gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bavarian pine vole gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Broad-striped dasyure gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Singing vole gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Creeping vole gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Guajira mouse opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-tailed mole gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)