How many baby Siberian chipmunks are in a litter?
A Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 35 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 Siberian chipmunk grows up to a size of 14.8 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.
The Siberian chipmunk or common chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus) appears across northern Asia from central Russia to China, Korea, and HokkaidÅ in northern Japan. Imported from South Korea and introduced in Europe as a pet in the 1960s, it is the only chipmunk found outside North America and is classed either as the only living member of the genus Eutamias, or as a member of a genus including all chipmunks.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Siberian chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Alpine chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan montane squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Xerus erythropus with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern Amazon red squirrel weighting only 403 grams
- Douglas squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Low’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern chipmunk raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Epixerus with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Siberian chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Star-nosed mole
- Pacific jumping mouse
- Merriam’s shrew
- Marbled polecat
- Crowned shrew
- Royle’s mountain vole
- Hispid cotton rat
- Tundra vole
- Striped field mouse
- Dark bolo mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Siberian chipmunk
What other animals weight around 94 grams (0.21 lbs)?
- Southern climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Candango mouse weighting 97 grams
- Bunny rat weighting 79 grams
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- Roman mole weighting 92 grams
- Beady-eyed mouse weighting 77 grams
- Hero shrew weighting 91 grams
- Splendid climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Slender Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Golden hamster weighting 98 grams
Animals with the same size as a Siberian chipmunk
Also reaching around 14.8 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Desert kangaroo rat gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Val’s gundi gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-footed water rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gilliard’s flying fox gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tsing-ling pika gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)