How many baby Javanese flying squirrels are in a litter?
A Javanese flying squirrel (Iomys horsfieldii) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6.8 kg (14.99 lbs) and measure 15.1 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Iomys). An adult Javanese flying squirrel grows up to a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Javanese flying squirrel (Iomys horsfieldii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Javanese flying squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Ribboned rope squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Basilan flying squirrel raching a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Alexander’s bush squirrel weighting only 50 grams
- Black-striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Piute ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weighting only 199 grams
- Texas antelope squirrel with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Utah prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Javanese flying squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Southern pocket gopher
- Low’s squirrel
- Moss-forest rat
- Little desert pocket mouse
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Cape genet
- Eastern common cuscus
- Bobcat
- African striped weasel
- Jaguarundi
Animals with the same weight as a Javanese flying squirrel
What other animals weight around 156 grams (0.34 lbs)?
- Palawan treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel weighting 130 grams
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting 152 grams
- Luzon striped rat weighting 152 grams
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse weighting 170 grams
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat weighting 131 grams
- Tanezumi rat weighting 140 grams
- Magdalena rat weighting 130 grams
- Indian palm squirrel weighting 136 grams
- Bolivian chinchilla rat weighting 158 grams
Animals with the same size as a Javanese flying squirrel
Also reaching around 18.5 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Daurian hedgehog gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern African hedgehog gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-headed African mole-rat gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Stein’s rat gets as big as 17.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Whiskered flying squirrel gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Uinta ground squirrel gets as big as 21.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- American pika gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)