How many baby Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrels are in a litter?
A Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus saturatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Spermophilus). An adult Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel grows up to a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″).
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 Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus saturatus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, in the order Rodentia. It is the largest species of the three within the subgenus Callospermophilus. It is found in the Cascade Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada and the state of Washington, United States.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Black giant squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Columbian ground squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Culion tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hopi chipmunk weighting only 53 grams
- Travancore flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Black flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rock squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Palmer’s chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once: