How many baby Golden-mantled ground squirrels are in a litter?
A Golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 29 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Spermophilus). An adult Golden-mantled ground squirrel grows up to a size of 21.4 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 golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a ground squirrel native to western North America. It is distributed in British Columbia and Alberta through the western United States to California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Golden-mantled ground squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Alpine marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Collie’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Maritime striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan montane squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hoary marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Plantain squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Wyoming ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Indochinese flying squirrel weighting only 227 grams
- Douglas squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Middendorf’s vole
- Northern grass mouse
- Sagebrush vole
- Merriam’s shrew
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Douglas squirrel
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Kowari
- Alpine shrew
- Mongolian gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Golden-mantled ground squirrel
What other animals weight around 175 grams (0.39 lbs)?
- Striped treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Little golden-mantled flying fox weighting 184 grams
- Large New Guinea spiny rat weighting 194 grams
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat weighting 170 grams
- Echigo mole weighting 163 grams
- Desert woodrat weighting 144 grams
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weighting 199 grams
- Luzon striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat weighting 178 grams
- Furtive tuco-tuco weighting 150 grams
Animals with the same size as a Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Also reaching around 21.4 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Striped possum gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Busuanga squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel gets as big as 20.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large New Guinea spiny rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mouse bandicoot gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Afghan pika gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red slender loris gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Palawan montane squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)