How many baby Boehm’s bush squirrels are in a litter?
A Boehm’s bush squirrel (Paraxerus boehmi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Paraxerus). An adult Boehm’s bush squirrel grows up to a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Boehm’s bush squirrel (Paraxerus boehmi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and moist savanna.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Boehm’s bush squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Siberian chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Green bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Abert’s squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Barbary ground squirrel becoming 9 years old
- Least chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weighting only 199 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Arizona gray squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Four-striped ground squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Boehm’s bush squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Common noctule
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat
- Rufous hare-wallaby
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Cape serotine
- Puku
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Boehm’s bush squirrel
What other animals weight around 70 grams (0.15 lbs)?
- Balkan mole weighting 70 grams
- Ryukyu spiny rat weighting 84 grams
- Siberian brown lemming weighting 58 grams
- Dark-tailed tree rat weighting 71 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- African wading rat weighting 62 grams
- Montane Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 82 grams
- Mashona mole-rat weighting 65 grams
- Heath mouse weighting 72 grams
Animals with the same size as a Boehm’s bush squirrel
Also reaching around 12.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gould’s mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hainan gymnure gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siberian chipmunk gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chiruromys lamia gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- One-striped opossum gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)