How many baby Gray-collared chipmunks are in a litter?
A Gray-collared chipmunk (Tamias cinereicollis) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Gray-collared chipmunk grows up to a size of 12.8 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-collared chipmunk (Neotamias cinereicollis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Arizona and New Mexico in the United States.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Gray-collared chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Mexican prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Washington ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Rock squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Travancore flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Three-striped ground squirrel weighting only 175 grams
- Brooke’s squirrel weighting only 114 grams
- Busuanga squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Peters’s squirrel weighting only 650 grams
- Least chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gray-collared chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Turkestan rat
- Hairy-tailed mole
- Chestnut white-bellied rat
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Desert pocket gopher
- Pygmy gerbil
- Japanese grass vole
- Dsinezumi shrew
- Wild boar
- Etruscan shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-collared chipmunk
What other animals weight around 61 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Dibbler weighting 72 grams
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat weighting 57 grams
- Guinea multimammate mouse weighting 64 grams
- Oecomys rex weighting 73 grams
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse weighting 69 grams
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 49 grams
- Underwood’s bonneted bat weighting 58 grams
- Ruschi’s rat weighting 63 grams
- Greater nectar bat weighting 72 grams
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse weighting 54 grams
Animals with the same size as a Gray-collared chipmunk
Also reaching around 12.8 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Low’s squirrel gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Marsh rice rat gets as big as 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Panama slender opossum gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater tree mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain water rat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Biak glider gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pocock’s highland rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Highland brush mouse gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)