How many baby Allen’s chipmunks are in a litter?
A Allen’s chipmunk (Tamias senex) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
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 Allen’s chipmunk grows up to a size of 14.5 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.
Allen’s chipmunk (Neotamias senex) is a species of chipmunk. It is also known as the shadow chipmunk. It is native to the western United States, where it occurs in California, Nevada, and Oregon. It is a common species of the Sierra Nevada.This chipmunk lives in forests and chaparral. It is omnivorous. It is prey for minks, weasels, and owls. It is active all year round except during stretches of harsh winter weather.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Allen’s chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting around 1.16 kilograms (2.56 lbs)
- Arctic ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel weighting only 109 grams
- Jentink’s flying squirrel weighting only 56 grams
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Red squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Uinta ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Richmond’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Merriam’s chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Allen’s chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Turkestan red pika
- European mink
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus
- African pygmy mouse
- Transcaucasian mole vole
- Nectomys squamipes
- Iberian shrew
- Red squirrel
- Pale fox
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster
Animals with the same weight as a Allen’s chipmunk
What other animals weight around 89 grams (0.2 lbs)?
- Short-tailed hopping mouse weighting 89 grams
- Oecomys rutilus weighting 73 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 93 grams
- Northern red-sided opossum weighting 79 grams
- Goliath shrew weighting 87 grams
- Siskiyou chipmunk weighting 75 grams
- Asian garden dormouse weighting 100 grams
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- Long-tailed hopping mouse weighting 100 grams
Animals with the same size as a Allen’s chipmunk
Also reaching around 14.5 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mountain water rat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Zempoaltépec vole gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pyrenean desman gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern pika gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sundevall’s jird gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)