How many baby Allen’s squirrels are in a litter?
A Allen’s squirrel (Sciurus alleni) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sciurus). An adult Allen’s squirrel grows up to a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″).
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 squirrel (Sciurus alleni) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to northern Mexico. It has no subspecies.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Allen’s squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Deppe’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern Amazon red squirrel weighting only 403 grams
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Perote ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Menzbier’s marmot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gambian sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel weighting only 130 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Allen’s squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Mountain pocket gopher
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Borneo black-banded squirrel
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Insular vole
- Northern brown bandicoot
- Collared pika
- Delectable soft-furred mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Allen’s squirrel
What other animals weight around 465 grams (1.03 lbs)?
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose weighting 550 grams
- Siberian weasel weighting 531 grams
- Black-mantled tamarin weighting 450 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 403 grams
- Brazilian guinea pig weighting 524 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat weighting 439 grams
- Texas pocket gopher weighting 397 grams
- Variegated squirrel weighting 485 grams
- European ground squirrel weighting 396 grams
- Slender-tailed squirrel weighting 427 grams
Animals with the same size as a Allen’s squirrel
Also reaching around 23.4 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Speckled dasyure gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Eastern woolly lemur gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Peruvian tuco-tuco gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mountain weasel gets as big as 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Yucatan squirrel gets as big as 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gray tree rat gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel gets as big as 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Hammer-headed bat gets as big as 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ili pika gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel gets as big as 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)