How many baby Four-striped ground squirrels are in a litter?
A Four-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus hosei) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 7.92 kg (17.46 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Lariscus). An adult Four-striped ground squirrel grows up to a size of 18.2 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 four-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus hosei) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Four-striped ground squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Arizona gray squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern gray squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black-eared squirrel raching a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Particolored flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Speckled ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sanborn’s squirrel weighting only 136 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern chipmunk raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals that share a litter size with Four-striped ground squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Horse
- Greater glider
- Bactrian camel
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Western gorilla
- Guam flying fox
- Spotted seal
- Mashona mole-rat
- Maxwell’s duiker
Animals with the same weight as a Four-striped ground squirrel
What other animals weight around 180 grams (0.4 lbs)?
- Long-footed treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Island mouse weighting 164 grams
- Dusky bushbaby weighting 213 grams
- Mottled tuco-tuco weighting 192 grams
- Pygmy ringtail possum weighting 152 grams
- Northern treeshrew weighting 200 grams
- New Caledonia flying fox weighting 151 grams
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco weighting 202 grams
- Arizona woodrat weighting 200 grams
Animals with the same size as a Four-striped ground squirrel
Also reaching around 18.2 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Siberian chipmunk gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher gets as big as 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky pocket gopher gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Daurian pika gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Perote ground squirrel gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tropical pocket gopher gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Eastern woodrat gets as big as 21.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)