How many baby Least pygmy squirrels are in a litter?
A Least pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus exilis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 150 grams (0.33 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Exilisciurus). An adult Least pygmy squirrel grows up to a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″).
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 least pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus exilis), also known as the plain pygmy squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. This plain olive-brown squirrel is endemic to forests, mostly below an altitude of 750 m (2,500 ft) but locally significantly higher, on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Banggi. Together with the African pygmy squirrel, the least pygmy squirrel is the smallest squirrel in the world, having a total length of 10–14 cm (3.9–5.5 in) and a weight of 12–26 g (0.42–0.92 oz).
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Least pygmy squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Indian palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Variegated squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Durango chipmunk with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Lunda rope squirrel weighting only 135 grams
- Jentink’s squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Washington ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Least pygmy squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Moss-forest rat
- Western barred bandicoot
- Common genet
- Lion
- Silvery greater galago
- Woodland vole
- Cape dune mole-rat
- Gray mouse lemur
- Golden spiny mouse
- Edward’s swamp rat
Animals with the same weight as a Least pygmy squirrel
What other animals weight around 21 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Bank vole weighting 20 grams
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil weighting 17 grams
- Yellow golden mole weighting 24 grams
- Fraser’s musk shrew weighting 17 grams
- Northern red-backed vole weighting 19 grams
- Akodon affinis weighting 24 grams
- Sinaloan pocket mouse weighting 17 grams
- Red tree vole weighting 22 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec weighting 18 grams
- White-bellied free-tailed bat weighting 21 grams
Animals with the same size as a Least pygmy squirrel
Also reaching around 8.3 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Narrow-skulled pocket mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pacific jumping mouse gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little native mouse gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Steppe mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- American shrew mole gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Blue-gray mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)