How many baby Eastern gray squirrels are in a litter?
A Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) 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 44 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Eastern gray squirrel grows up to a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″).
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 eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis), also known as the grey squirrel depending on region, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus. It is native to eastern North America, where it is the most prodigious and ecologically essential natural forest regenerator. Widely introduced to certain places around the world, the eastern gray squirrel in Europe, in particular, is regarded as an invasive species.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Eastern gray squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Yucatan squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-collared chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk weighting only 91 grams
- Richmond’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Daurian ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weighting only 199 grams
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ochre bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kinabalu squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Eastern gray squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Seminole bat
- Asian particolored bat
- Yellow golden mole
- Kimberley rock rat
- Tome’s spiny rat
- Golden-headed lion tamarin
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- Tawny deer mouse
Animals that get as old as a Eastern gray squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24 years:
- Dusky leaf monkey with 25 years
- South American sea lion with 24.75 years
- Western barbastelle with 21 years
- Guianan squirrel monkey with 27 years
- Binturong with 22.67 years
- Sika deer with 25.42 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with 21.17 years
- Striped hyena with 24 years
- Platypus with 22 years
- Common wallaroo with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern gray squirrel
What other animals weight around 546 grams (1.2 lbs)?
- Golden lion tamarin weighting 593 grams
- Atlantic bamboo rat weighting 600 grams
- New Guinean quoll weighting 611 grams
- Indonesian mountain weasel weighting 466 grams
- Black-mantled tamarin weighting 450 grams
- Slender mongoose weighting 530 grams
- Painted tree-rat weighting 519 grams
- Giant tree-rat weighting 584 grams
- Peruvian tuco-tuco weighting 489 grams
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy weighting 450 grams
Animals with the same size as a Eastern gray squirrel
Also reaching around 25.4 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky flying squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Peters’s squirrel gets as big as 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Forest giant squirrel gets as big as 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Volcano rabbit gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog gets as big as 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black jackrabbit gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)