How many baby Deppe’s squirrels are in a litter?
A Deppe’s squirrel (Sciurus deppei) 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 Deppe’s squirrel grows up to a size of 20 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.
Deppe’s squirrel (Sciurus deppei) is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus native to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Deppe’s squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern Amazon red squirrel weighting only 403 grams
- Mexican ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- California chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Columbian ground squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yucatan squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Deppe’s squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- African golden cat
- Tasmanian devil
- Brown deer mouse
- Malayan mountain spiny rat
- White-lipped tamarin
- Geoffroy’s tamarin
- Amami rabbit
- Marsh mongoose
- Jamaican coney
Animals with the same weight as a Deppe’s squirrel
What other animals weight around 250 grams (0.55 lbs)?
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting 201 grams
- Mechow’s mole-rat weighting 272 grams
- Grey-bellied squirrel weighting 265 grams
- Napo spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Amazon weasel weighting 268 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat weighting 239 grams
- Barbary ground squirrel weighting 251 grams
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot weighting 220 grams
- Chinese zokor weighting 256 grams
- Squirrel glider weighting 230 grams
Animals with the same size as a Deppe’s squirrel
Also reaching around 20 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Russian desman gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Great-tailed triok gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog shrew-rat gets as big as 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- New Guinean rat gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gorongoza gerbil gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern quoll gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Least weasel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)