How many baby Himalayan striped squirrels are in a litter?
A Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops macclellandi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamiops). An adult Himalayan striped squirrel grows up to a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii), also known as western striped squirrel, or Burmese striped squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It lives in a variety of forest from tropical to subtropical in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. This species is diurnal, arboreal and feeds on fruits, vegetable matter, and insects. It often seen in small groups and uses tree holes for shelter.The rapid uplift of the Himalayan Mountains is believed to have caused the diversification of the three main Tamiops Lineages. Multiple divergences from 5.8 to 1.7 mya likely led to the formation of modern Tamiops species.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Himalayan striped squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel weighting only 250 grams
- Colorado chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Speckled ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Buller’s chipmunk with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-footed chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mindanao squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bobak marmot with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Himalayan striped squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Fishing cat
- Red panda
- Golden spiny mouse
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat
- Meller’s mongoose
- Dark-footed mouse shrew
- Black-tailed jackrabbit
- Marbled cat
- Armored rat
- Feathertail glider
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan striped squirrel
What other animals weight around 45 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Western mastiff bat weighting 50 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting 49 grams
- Black-eared mouse weighting 39 grams
- Greater Egyptian gerbil weighting 42 grams
- Tschudi’s slender opossum weighting 41 grams
- Chestnut tree mouse weighting 46 grams
- False water rat weighting 45 grams
- Ivory Coast rat weighting 52 grams
- Murree vole weighting 52 grams
- Antillean fruit-eating bat weighting 45 grams
Animals with the same size as a Himalayan striped squirrel
Also reaching around 10.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Forrest’s mouse gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woolly dormouse gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Florida mouse gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- California red tree mouse gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Djoongari gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)