How many baby Fire-footed rope squirrels are in a litter?
A Fire-footed rope squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Funisciurus). An adult Fire-footed rope squirrel grows up to a size of 20.5 cm (0′ 9″).
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 fire-footed rope squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, and plantations.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Fire-footed rope squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Variegated squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly flying squirrel raching a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting only 87 grams
- Uinta chipmunk with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Palmer’s chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Collie’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kinabalu squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Buller’s chipmunk with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Fire-footed rope squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- South American tapir
- Bush vlei rat
- Black-rumped agouti
- Dugong
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
- Red goral
- Bushy-tailed mongoose
- Northern sportive lemur
- Malagasy giant rat
- White-bellied duiker
Animals with the same weight as a Fire-footed rope squirrel
What other animals weight around 243 grams (0.54 lbs)?
- Moon-toothed degu weighting 200 grams
- Straw-coloured fruit bat weighting 253 grams
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby weighting 268 grams
- Minca spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Lundomys weighting 238 grams
- BolaƱos woodrat weighting 198 grams
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Southern mountain cavy weighting 261 grams
- Royle’s pika weighting 260 grams
- Northern treeshrew weighting 200 grams
Animals with the same size as a Fire-footed rope squirrel
Also reaching around 20.5 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Eastern rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Buffy-headed marmoset gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Guyenne spiny rat gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mountain weasel gets as big as 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Daurian hedgehog gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-haired rat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Turkestan red pika gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)