How many baby Long-clawed ground squirrels are in a litter?
A Long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 45 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 158 grams (0.35 lbs) and measure 5.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Spermophilopsis). An adult Long-clawed ground squirrel grows up to a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″).
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 long-clawed ground squirrel (Spermophilopsis leptodactylus) is a squirrel species native to grasslands and deserts in northeastern Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, northwestern Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Long-clawed ground squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Arctic ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern chipmunk raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Richmond’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Olympic marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western dwarf squirrel weighting only 120 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Little ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-clawed ground squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Sody’s tree rat
- Parantechinus bilarni
- American red squirrel
- White-tailed jackrabbit
- Greater stripe-backed shrew
- Culpeo
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Lataste’s gerbil
- Olympic marmot
- African groove-toothed rat
Animals with the same size as a Long-clawed ground squirrel
Also reaching around 24.4 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Sardinian pika gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Daurian hedgehog gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mexican gray squirrel gets as big as 25.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mindanao squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hugh’s hedgehog gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Giant golden mole gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Back-striped weasel gets as big as 28.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Round-tailed muskrat gets as big as 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Central American squirrel monkey gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)