How many baby Common treeshrews are in a litter?
A Common treeshrew (Tupaia glis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 45 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 9.7 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Tupaiidae family (genus: Tupaia). An adult Common treeshrew grows up to a size of 18.5 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 common treeshrew (Tupaia glis) is a small mammal in the treeshrew family Tupaiidae, and is native to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It has been listed as Least Concern by IUCN as it remains common and displays some adaptability to ongoing habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Tupaiidae
Common treeshrew is a member of the Tupaiidae, as are these animals:
- Pygmy treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-footed treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Slender treeshrew weighting only 112 grams
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew weighting only 60 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew weighting only 170 grams
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew weighting only 50 grams
- Large treeshrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pen-tailed treeshrew becoming 2.67 years old
- Painted treeshrew weighting only 168 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common treeshrew
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Angoni vlei rat
- Brown deer mouse
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Hoary bat
- Eurasian beaver
- Gray tree rat
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Golden lion tamarin
- Radde’s shrew
- Djoongari
Animals that get as old as a Common treeshrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.42 years:
- Four-horned antelope with 10.75 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with 12 years
- Arabian gazelle with 11.25 years
- Southern tree hyrax with 10 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with 12 years
- Eastern spotted skunk with 10 years
- Agile wallaby with 12 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with 12 years
- Java mouse-deer with 12 years
- American red squirrel with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common treeshrew
What other animals weight around 132 grams (0.29 lbs)?
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat weighting 125 grams
- Ribboned rope squirrel weighting 141 grams
- Owl’s spiny rat weighting 114 grams
- Giant roundleaf bat weighting 115 grams
- Masked white-tailed rat weighting 149 grams
- Mountain degu weighting 154 grams
- Edible dormouse weighting 128 grams
- Pygmy ringtail possum weighting 152 grams
- Luzon striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Dian’s tarsier weighting 111 grams
Animals with the same size as a Common treeshrew
Also reaching around 18.5 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Ear-spot squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Philippine forest rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern Plains woodrat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cerradomys subflavus gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Speckled dasyure gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)