How many baby Gray-cheeked flying squirrels are in a litter?
A Gray-cheeked flying squirrel (Hylopetes lepidus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 40 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Hylopetes). An adult Gray-cheeked flying squirrel grows up to a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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 gray-cheeked flying squirrel (Hylopetes lepidus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Gray-cheeked flying squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Long-eared chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Xerus erythropus with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel weighting only 30 grams
- Shrew-faced squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Columbian ground squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk weighting only 91 grams
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Alexander’s bush squirrel weighting only 50 grams
- Smith’s bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Menzbier’s marmot with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Deppe’s squirrel
- Cape fox
- Highland streaked tenrec
- Particolored flying squirrel
- Maritime striped squirrel
- White-throated woodrat
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Golden mouse
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Binturong
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
What other animals weight around 63 grams (0.14 lbs)?
- Nephelomys keaysi weighting 58 grams
- Emin’s gerbil weighting 52 grams
- Small Japanese mole weighting 65 grams
- Arianus’s rat weighting 70 grams
- Rufous elephant shrew weighting 52 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat weighting 53 grams
- Oecomys concolor weighting 54 grams
- Broad-footed climbing mouse weighting 57 grams
- Short-tailed gymnure weighting 60 grams
- Ivory Coast rat weighting 52 grams
Animals with the same size as a Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
Also reaching around 14.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Spotted ground squirrel gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-toothed brush mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-tailed gymnure gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Buller’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Senegal bushbaby gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)