How many baby Grey-bellied squirrels are in a litter?
A Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5.35 kg (11.8 lbs) and measure 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Callosciurus). An adult Grey-bellied squirrel grows up to a size of 21.1 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 grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in forests, plantations and gardens in Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, southern Myanmar, southern China (Yunnan) and possibly western Laos. It has been introduced in the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. As suggested by its name, its belly is usually grey, though sometimes reddish on the sides. Depending on subspecies and season, the upperparts are grey, yellowish-olive or reddish.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Grey-bellied squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Columbian ground squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mentawai squirrel weighting only 296 grams
- American red squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-footed chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hopi chipmunk weighting only 53 grams
- Epixerus with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s flying squirrel weighting around 1.43 kilograms (3.15 lbs)
- Gray-collared chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Black-eared squirrel raching a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel weighting only 241 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Grey-bellied squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Low’s squirrel
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
- Djoongari
- Yunnan hare
- Kimberley rock rat
- Gray mouse lemur
- White-tailed mongoose
- Black-tailed jackrabbit
- Ochre bush squirrel
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
Animals that get as old as a Grey-bellied squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.5 years:
- Pallid bat with 9.08 years
- Short-eared dog with 11 years
- Island fox with 8 years
- Chacoan peccary with 9 years
- Yuma myotis with 8.75 years
- Northern tamandua with 9.5 years
- Bengal fox with 10 years
- Pudú with 10 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 8.5 years
- Northern treeshrew with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Grey-bellied squirrel
What other animals weight around 265 grams (0.58 lbs)?
- Big-eared woodrat weighting 225 grams
- Admiralty flying fox weighting 305 grams
- Magdalena spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Philippine forest rat weighting 253 grams
- Smith’s bush squirrel weighting 222 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat weighting 243 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Samoa flying fox weighting 309 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew weighting 301 grams
- Simons’s spiny rat weighting 284 grams
Animals with the same size as a Grey-bellied squirrel
Also reaching around 21.1 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Allen’s woodrat gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Big-eared flying fox gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hugh’s hedgehog gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Moluccan flying fox gets as big as 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Luzon striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland ringtail possum gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Prevost’s squirrel gets as big as 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)