How many baby Durango chipmunks are in a litter?
A Durango chipmunk (Tamias durangae) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Durango chipmunk grows up to a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Durango chipmunk (Neotamias durangae) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Durango chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Sonoma chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting around 1.16 kilograms (2.56 lbs)
- Olympic marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Indian giant squirrel weighting around 1.06 kilograms (2.34 lbs)
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weighting only 199 grams
- Western gray squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese squirrel weighting only 264 grams
- Three-striped ground squirrel weighting only 175 grams
- Tropical ground squirrel weighting only 155 grams
- Arizona gray squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Durango chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Golden-backed tree-rat
- North African elephant shrew
- Snow leopard
- Japanese house bat
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Brown hyena
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
- Geoffroy’s cat
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Nyctophilus corbeni
Animals with the same weight as a Durango chipmunk
What other animals weight around 85 grams (0.19 lbs)?
- Oecomys roberti weighting 73 grams
- Slender Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Diminutive woodrat weighting 80 grams
- European mole weighting 86 grams
- Gray mouse lemur weighting 68 grams
- Big-eared woolly bat weighting 78 grams
- Southern big-eared mouse weighting 70 grams
- Bushveld gerbil weighting 73 grams
- Patagonian chinchilla mouse weighting 75 grams
- Harrington’s rat weighting 90 grams
Animals with the same size as a Durango chipmunk
Also reaching around 13.4 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser hamster-rat gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mole gets as big as 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Least forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)