How many baby Ear-spot squirrels are in a litter?
A Ear-spot squirrel (Callosciurus adamsi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5.35 kg (11.8 lbs) and measure 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Callosciurus). An adult Ear-spot squirrel grows up to a size of 20.3 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 ear-spot squirrel (Callosciurus adamsi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is endemic to Borneo (Indonesia and Malaysia). Diurnal and active mainly in small trees. Closely resembles the plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus), but smaller and with a distinct pale buffy patch behind each ear.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Ear-spot squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting only 201 grams
- Japanese squirrel weighting only 264 grams
- Busuanga squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Uinta chipmunk with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Prevost’s squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Particolored flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bolivian squirrel weighting only 190 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Ear-spot squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Chestnut-bellied titi
- Blyth’s vole
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- South African springhare
- Typical vlei rat
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Molossops planirostris
- Chacoan mara
- Chocolate wattled bat
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat
Animals with the same weight as a Ear-spot squirrel
What other animals weight around 209 grams (0.46 lbs)?
- Southeastern pocket gopher weighting 201 grams
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat weighting 186 grams
- Mountain treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 grams
- Nectomys squamipes weighting 185 grams
- Little ground squirrel weighting 174 grams
- Fischer’s guiara weighting 188 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat weighting 236 grams
- Western naked-backed fruit bat weighting 226 grams
- Indian hedgehog weighting 171 grams
Animals with the same size as a Ear-spot squirrel
Also reaching around 20.3 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Yucatan squirrel gets as big as 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Striped treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern African vlei rat gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan flying squirrel gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland ringtail possum gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Nicobar flying fox gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Altai mole gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)