How many baby Collie’s squirrels are in a litter?
A Collie’s squirrel (Sciurus colliaei) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 15 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sciurus). An adult Collie’s squirrel grows up to a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″).
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.
Collie’s squirrel (Sciurus colliaei) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to Mexico.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Collie’s squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Ochre bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian giant flying squirrel weighting around 1.68 kilograms (3.7 lbs)
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly flying squirrel raching a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Siskiyou chipmunk weighting only 75 grams
- Vancouver Island marmot with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hagen’s flying squirrel raching a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals that share a litter size with Collie’s squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Greater dwarf lemur
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Geoffroy’s cat
- Greater stick-nest rat
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew
- Schlieffen’s bat
- Northern palm squirrel
- Ashy chinchilla rat
- Siberian flying squirrel
- Southern brown bandicoot
Animals with the same weight as a Collie’s squirrel
What other animals weight around 498 grams (1.1 lbs)?
- Azara’s tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat weighting 502 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel weighting 510 grams
- Variegated squirrel weighting 485 grams
- White-footed tamarin weighting 457 grams
- Brazilian guinea pig weighting 524 grams
- Southern Amazon red squirrel weighting 403 grams
- Giant tree-rat weighting 584 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat weighting 400 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat weighting 445 grams
Animals with the same size as a Collie’s squirrel
Also reaching around 25.4 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Giant golden mole gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Palawan montane squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pygmy rabbit gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Small flying fox gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Guyenne spiny rat gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Stoat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Magellanic tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Muskrat gets as big as 27.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Masoala fork-marked lemur gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)