How many baby Lodgepole chipmunks are in a litter?
A Lodgepole chipmunk (Tamias speciosus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Lodgepole chipmunk grows up to a size of 12.5 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 Lodgepole chipmunk (Neotamias speciosus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in the U.S. state of California at elevations from 1,500 to 3,000 metres (4,900 to 9,800 ft). The Lodgepole chipmunk has a variety of common names including: Tahoe chipmunk, Sequoia chipmunk, Mt. Pinos chipmunk, and San Bernardino chipmunk.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Lodgepole chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Whiskered flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- California ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel weighting only 130 grams
- Long-tailed marmot with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting only 87 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting only 675 grams
- Davao squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Philippine tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals that share a litter size with Lodgepole chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- California vole
- Transcaucasian mole vole
- Silky mouse
- Black-tailed gerbil
- Swift fox
- Himalayan shrew
- Mountain cottontail
- White-tailed jackrabbit
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
- Great gerbil
Animals with the same weight as a Lodgepole chipmunk
What other animals weight around 60 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat weighting 50 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus weighting 71 grams
- Indian bush rat weighting 60 grams
- Eastern rock elephant shrew weighting 59 grams
- Nephelomys albigularis weighting 60 grams
- Eremoryzomys weighting 60 grams
- Charming thicket rat weighting 61 grams
- Social vole weighting 48 grams
- Rupp’s mouse weighting 48 grams
- East African little collared fruit bat weighting 53 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lodgepole chipmunk
Also reaching around 12.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Garden dormouse gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shining thicket rat gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Handley’s slender opossum gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray short-tailed opossum gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Philippine tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)