How many baby Bobak marmots are in a litter?
A Bobak marmot (Marmota bobak) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 40 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Marmota). An adult Bobak marmot grows up to a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″).
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 bobak marmot (Marmota bobak), also known as the steppe marmot, is a species of marmot that inhabits the steppes of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It is a social animal and inhabits steppe grassland, including cultivated field borders. It hibernates for more than half the year. Litter sizes average about five offspring and it takes three years for the young marmots to reach sexual maturity. Male offspring leave the home colony after their second winter, and about 60% of mature females give birth in any one year. The fur is used to make hats and coats and a Moscow fur-farm is experimenting with breeding bobak marmots for their pelts.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Bobak marmot is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Mexican ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- African pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray marmot with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern chipmunk raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni weighting only 422 grams
- Buller’s chipmunk with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Forest giant squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Basilan flying squirrel raching a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bobak marmot
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- White-eared opossum
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Günther’s vole
- Maximowicz’s vole
- Townsend’s pocket gopher
- New Guinean quoll
- Mindoro black rat
- Siberian brown lemming
- Alaskan hare
- Wyoming pocket gopher
Animals that get as old as a Bobak marmot
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Santarem marmoset with 15 years
- Tammar wallaby with 14 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with 13.5 years
- Weyns’s duiker with 15.25 years
- Markhor with 14 years
- Red-handed tamarin with 15.33 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with 14 years
- Menzbier’s marmot with 15 years
- Quokka with 12 years