How many baby Forest giant squirrels are in a litter?
A Forest giant squirrel (Protoxerus stangeri) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 275 grams (0.61 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Protoxerus). An adult Forest giant squirrel grows up to a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″).
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 forest giant squirrel (Protoxerus stangeri) or Stanger’s squirrel is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Angola, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and plantations.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Forest giant squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting around 1.16 kilograms (2.56 lbs)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel weighting only 277 grams
- Vancouver Island marmot with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Indian giant squirrel weighting around 1.06 kilograms (2.34 lbs)
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Groundhog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s flying squirrel weighting around 1.43 kilograms (3.15 lbs)
- Culion tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Forest giant squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Mahogany glider
- Common pipistrelle
- Salt’s dik-dik
- Northeast African mole-rat
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
- Lechwe
- Rwanda African mole-rat
- Cape serotine
- Attwater’s pocket gopher
Animals that get as old as a Forest giant squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.08 years:
- Bahamian hutia with 6 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 5.5 years
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with 5 years
- Woodland dormouse with 5.75 years
- Otter civet with 5 years
- Bunny rat with 5.5 years
- Virginia opossum with 5 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with 5 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Forest giant squirrel
What other animals weight around 630 grams (1.39 lbs)?
- Kashmir flying squirrel weighting 510 grams
- Amazon bamboo rat weighting 650 grams
- Red-handed tamarin weighting 541 grams
- Mexican fox squirrel weighting 697 grams
- Spermophilus relictus weighting 600 grams
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose weighting 550 grams
- White-footed sportive lemur weighting 600 grams
- Painted tree-rat weighting 519 grams
- Dark spiny tree-rat weighting 627 grams
- Striped bandicoot weighting 542 grams
Animals with the same size as a Forest giant squirrel
Also reaching around 29.1 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Gray four-eyed opossum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mimic tree rat gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-fingered triok gets as big as 23.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Tailless tenrec gets as big as 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Cotton-top tamarin gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Common echymipera gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mountain cottontail gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Allen’s squirrel gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat gets as big as 34 cm (1′ 2″)