How many baby Black giant squirrels are in a litter?
A Black giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 31 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 77 grams (0.17 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Ratufa). An adult Black giant squirrel grows up to a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″).
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 black giant squirrel or Malayan giant squirrel (Ratufa bicolor) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa native to the Indomalayan zootope. It is found in forests from northern Bangladesh, northeast India, eastern Nepal, Bhutan, southern China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and western Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Bali and nearby small islands).
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Black giant squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Hopi chipmunk weighting only 53 grams
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel weighting only 130 grams
- Cliff chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Texas antelope squirrel with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Belding’s ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Olympic marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Indian giant flying squirrel weighting around 1.68 kilograms (3.7 lbs)
- Eastern gray squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black giant squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sitatunga
- Common thick-thumbed bat
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Malagasy civet
- Baird’s tapir
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Patas monkey
- Large-eared pied bat
- Brown-throated sloth
- Hector’s dolphin
Animals that get as old as a Black giant squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.08 years:
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Silver-haired bat with 12 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel with 9.5 years
- Red-flanked duiker with 9.5 years
- Cape fox with 10 years
- Saiga antelope with 12 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with 10.92 years
Animals with the same weight as a Black giant squirrel
What other animals weight around 1.61 kg (3.55 lbs)?
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Gilbert’s potoroo usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Java mouse-deer usually reaching 1.88 kgs (4.14 lbs)
- Grandidier’s mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Fennec fox usually reaching 1.32 kgs (2.91 lbs)
- Tolai hare usually reaching 1.59 kgs (3.51 lbs)
- Mountain cuscus usually reaching 1.82 kgs (4.01 lbs)
- Rothschild’s cuscus usually reaching 1.37 kgs (3.02 lbs)
- European rabbit usually reaching 1.59 kgs (3.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black giant squirrel
Also reaching around 31.9 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Podogymnura truei gets as big as 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black dwarf porcupine gets as big as 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Short-beaked echidna gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Coppery titi gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Potto gets as big as 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Angolan talapoin gets as big as 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Pichi gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Cuban solenodon gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)