How many baby California chipmunks are in a litter?
A California chipmunk (Tamias obscurus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult California chipmunk grows up to a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″).
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 California chipmunk or chaparral chipmunk (Neotamias obscurus) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae. It is found in Baja California, Mexico and in southern California in the United States.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
California chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting only 201 grams
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel raching a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Siberian chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Arctic ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Congo rope squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Unstriped ground squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Colorado chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western gray squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jungle palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with California chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Oryzomys couesi
- Western red-backed vole
- Delectable soft-furred mouse
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- European pine marten
- Northern grasshopper mouse
- Polynesian rat
- Russian desman
- Painted spiny pocket mouse
- Brush mouse
Animals with the same weight as a California chipmunk
What other animals weight around 73 grams (0.16 lbs)?
- Arctic lemming weighting 78 grams
- Sundevall’s jird weighting 69 grams
- Red mouse opossum weighting 63 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Least weasel weighting 79 grams
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 82 grams
- Ansell’s mole-rat weighting 85 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Gansu pika weighting 69 grams
- Chelemys macronyx weighting 72 grams
Animals with the same size as a California chipmunk
Also reaching around 12.8 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed phascogale gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western rock elephant shrew gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bunny rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coast mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Irenomys gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)