How many baby Borneo black-banded squirrels are in a litter?
A Borneo black-banded squirrel (Callosciurus orestes) usually gives birth to around 3 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 Borneo black-banded 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 Borneo black-banded squirrel (Callosciurus orestes) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to northern Borneo.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Borneo black-banded squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Gray-footed chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Kinabalu squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Slender squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Black and red bush squirrel weighting only 692 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Borneo black-banded squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Hoary bamboo rat
- Darien harvest mouse
- Ungava collared lemming
- Hoary fox
- Fat sand rat
- Andean mountain cavy
- Forest dormouse
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Chestnut climbing mouse
- Heath mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Borneo black-banded squirrel
What other animals weight around 324 grams (0.71 lbs)?
- Steere’s spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher weighting 266 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Black-tufted marmoset weighting 340 grams
- Buffy-tufted marmoset weighting 387 grams
- Montane monkey-faced bat weighting 290 grams
- Pygmy spotted skunk weighting 365 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Mahogany glider weighting 361 grams
- O’Connell’s spiny rat weighting 284 grams
Animals with the same size as a Borneo black-banded squirrel
Also reaching around 20.3 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Nicobar flying fox gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red squirrel gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ribboned rope squirrel gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Daurian hedgehog gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Indian hedgehog gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)