How many baby Colorado chipmunks are in a litter?
A Colorado chipmunk (Tamias quadrivittatus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 31 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Colorado chipmunk grows up to a size of 12.2 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.
The Colorado chipmunk (Neotamias quadrivittatus) is a species of chipmunk in the squirrel family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico in the United States.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Colorado chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Pallas’s squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bolivian squirrel weighting only 190 grams
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting around 1.16 kilograms (2.56 lbs)
- Zanj sun squirrel weighting only 347 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Green bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- California chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Colorado chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Northern birch mouse
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse
- Common kusimanse
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
- Bushveld gerbil
- Yellow-bellied marmot
- Bush dog
- Woolly dormouse
- European hedgehog
- Field vole
Animals with the same weight as a Colorado chipmunk
What other animals weight around 57 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Red mouse opossum weighting 63 grams
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 49 grams
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat weighting 63 grams
- Long-tailed fruit bat weighting 68 grams
- Togo mouse weighting 55 grams
- Nephelomys auriventer weighting 60 grams
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse weighting 55 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur weighting 68 grams
- Spectacled dormouse weighting 68 grams
- Arends’s golden mole weighting 52 grams
Animals with the same size as a Colorado chipmunk
Also reaching around 12.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Maritime striped squirrel gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sculptor squirrel gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Zempoaltépec vole gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut tree mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pygmy possum gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)