How many baby Black-striped squirrels are in a litter?
A Black-striped squirrel (Callosciurus nigrovittatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5.35 kg (11.8 lbs) and measure 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Callosciurus). An adult Black-striped squirrel grows up to a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″).
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-striped squirrel (Callosciurus nigrovittatus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found throughout Java, Sumatra, southern Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and numerous small islands. This taxon consists of four subspecies: C. n. nigrovittatus, C. n. bilimitatus, C. n. bocki, and C. n. klossi. It is listed as “least concern” by the IUCN.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Black-striped squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel weighting only 109 grams
- Mountain ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-throated squirrel weighting only 803 grams
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Richmond’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Whiskered flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Santander dwarf squirrel weighting only 99 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Black-striped squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Selous’s mongoose
- European snow vole
- Eurasian beaver
- African yellow bat
- Myosorex varius
- Mountain degu
- Blanford’s rat
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Eastern rat
Animals with the same weight as a Black-striped squirrel
What other animals weight around 209 grams (0.46 lbs)?
- Hairy-tailed antsangy weighting 219 grams
- Lundomys weighting 238 grams
- Mottled tuco-tuco weighting 192 grams
- Argentine tuco-tuco weighting 221 grams
- Spectral bat weighting 171 grams
- Large treeshrew weighting 182 grams
- Pteropus temmincki weighting 250 grams
- Val’s gundi weighting 174 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat weighting 243 grams
- Large vlei rat weighting 192 grams
Animals with the same size as a Black-striped squirrel
Also reaching around 20.3 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Mentawai squirrel gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Three-striped ground squirrel gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Colombian weasel gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Guyenne spiny rat gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guadalcanal rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Eastern rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mouse bandicoot gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Perote ground squirrel gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- New Guinea waterside rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)