How many baby Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrels are in a litter?
A Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Anomaluridae family (genus: Anomalurus). An adult Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel grows up to a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″).
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.
Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus) is an anomalurid rodent native to Africa. It was named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby.
Other animals of the family Anomaluridae
Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel is a member of the Anomaluridae, as are these animals:
- Long-eared flying mouse weighting only 27 grams
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel weighting only 479 grams
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel weighting only 250 grams
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cameroon scaly-tail weighting only 200 grams
- Pel’s flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Four-toed elephant shrew
- Tiny pipistrelle
- Dormer’s bat
- Tenkile
- Mountain zebra
- Canyon bat
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat
- Sumatran rhinoceros
- Giant panda
- Mantled howler
Animals with the same weight as a Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
What other animals weight around 665 grams (1.47 lbs)?
- Pemba flying fox weighting 541 grams
- Giant otter shrew weighting 685 grams
- Rock squirrel weighting 715 grams
- Bismarck giant rat weighting 612 grams
- Abert’s squirrel weighting 623 grams
- Atlantic bamboo rat weighting 600 grams
- New Guinean quoll weighting 611 grams
- Malayan weasel weighting 569 grams
- Black flying fox weighting 609 grams
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine weighting 736 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
Also reaching around 35.7 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- New Britain water rat gets as big as 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Dice’s cottontail gets as big as 37.4 cm (1′ 3″)
- Back-striped weasel gets as big as 28.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Haussa genet gets as big as 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Lutrine opossum gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Selous’s mongoose gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Striped polecat gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-bellied titi gets as big as 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat gets as big as 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)