How many baby Harris’s antelope squirrels are in a litter?
A Harris’s antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 29 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Ammospermophilus). An adult Harris’s antelope squirrel grows up to a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″).
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.
Harris’s antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States, and in Sonora in Mexico. They are adapted to hot weather conditions including a technique called “heat dumping”. They have a wide-ranging diet, including both vegetation, insects, small rodents and carrion.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Harris’s antelope squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Northern flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni weighting only 422 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Utah prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Buller’s chipmunk with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Harris’s antelope squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Brown antechinus
- Round-tailed ground squirrel
- Flat-headed vole
- California ground squirrel
- Arctic shrew
- Woolly mouse opossum
- Bobak marmot
- Bornean bearded pig
- Günther’s vole
- Bronze quoll
Animals with the same weight as a Harris’s antelope squirrel
What other animals weight around 127 grams (0.28 lbs)?
- Fraternal hill rat weighting 130 grams
- Sado mole weighting 131 grams
- Indian palm squirrel weighting 136 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Brants’s whistling rat weighting 129 grams
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum weighting 112 grams
- Gorongoza gerbil weighting 118 grams
- Madagascan flying fox weighting 122 grams
- Red-crested tree-rat weighting 145 grams
- Attwater’s pocket gopher weighting 144 grams
Animals with the same size as a Harris’s antelope squirrel
Also reaching around 16 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Slender squirrel gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silvery mole-rat gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray-footed chipmunk gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Masked white-tailed rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kowari gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chiapan deer mouse gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-furred dasyure gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)