How many baby Kinabalu squirrels are in a litter?
A Kinabalu squirrel (Callosciurus baluensis) usually gives birth to around 3 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 Kinabalu squirrel grows up to a size of 20.3 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 Kinabalu squirrel (Callosciurus baluensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to highland forest in East Malaysia. Its name is a reference to Mount Kinabalu, though it is not restricted to this mountain. Its tail and upperparts are grizzled blackish, the underparts are reddish-orange, and the flanks have a narrow buff stripe with a broader black stripe below.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Kinabalu squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Indian palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sonoma chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Palmer’s chipmunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Forest giant squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Variegated squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Spermophilus relictus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Kinabalu squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Salt marsh harvest mouse
- Deroo’s mouse
- Hairy harvest mouse
- Coast mole
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
- Brush mouse
- Prairie vole
- Delectable soft-furred mouse
- Polynesian rat
- Hispid hare
Animals with the same weight as a Kinabalu squirrel
What other animals weight around 324 grams (0.71 lbs)?
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat weighting 291 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur weighting 326 grams
- Emilia’s marmoset weighting 309 grams
- Golden-mantled tamarin weighting 385 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting 296 grams
- Catamarca tuco-tuco weighting 316 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel weighting 333 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat weighting 315 grams
Animals with the same size as a Kinabalu squirrel
Also reaching around 20.3 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Long-footed treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum gets as big as 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi flying fox gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s woodrat gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Buffy-tufted marmoset gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)