How many baby Arizona gray squirrels are in a litter?
A Arizona gray squirrel (Sciurus arizonensis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 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 Arizona gray squirrel grows up to a size of 26.4 cm (0′ 11″).
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 Arizona gray squirrel (Sciurus arizonensis) is a tree squirrel, in the genus Sciurus, endemic to the canyons and valleys surrounded by deciduous and mixed forests in eastern Arizona and northern Mexico.It is threatened by habitat loss. The only other large squirrel that is within its range is Abert’s squirrel, which has ear tufts and lives in pine forests. Although they act and look like other gray squirrels, the Arizona gray squirrel is actually more closely related to the fox squirrel.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Arizona gray squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel raching a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gambian sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern chipmunk raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Arrow flying squirrel weighting only 49 grams
- Long-tailed marmot with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western dwarf squirrel weighting only 120 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting only 87 grams
- Tufted ground squirrel weighting around 1.35 kilograms (2.98 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Arizona gray squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Bower’s white-toothed rat
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat
- Emin’s gerbil
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Stein’s rat
- Whitehead’s spiny rat
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Jackson’s shrew
- Amazonian marsh rat
- Yellow-throated marten
Animals with the same weight as a Arizona gray squirrel
What other animals weight around 647 grams (1.43 lbs)?
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 642 grams
- Greater bandicoot rat weighting 583 grams
- Atlantic bamboo rat weighting 600 grams
- Giant otter shrew weighting 685 grams
- Mexican fox squirrel weighting 697 grams
- Golden-headed lion tamarin weighting 573 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel weighting 700 grams
- Insular flying fox weighting 560 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox weighting 524 grams
- Amazon bamboo rat weighting 650 grams
Animals with the same size as a Arizona gray squirrel
Also reaching around 26.4 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Ashy-headed flying fox gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Squirrel-toothed rat gets as big as 26.4 cm (0′ 11″)
- Lyle’s flying fox gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Cape dune mole-rat gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hagen’s flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Eastern small-toothed rat gets as big as 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Yellow-bellied weasel gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Poncelet’s giant rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Siberian weasel gets as big as 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)