How many baby Low’s squirrels are in a litter?
A Low’s squirrel (Sundasciurus lowii) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sundasciurus). An adult Low’s squirrel grows up to a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Low’s squirrel (Sundasciurus lowii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Low’s squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting only 201 grams
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wyoming ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Indian giant flying squirrel weighting around 1.68 kilograms (3.7 lbs)
- Siberian chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mentawai squirrel weighting only 296 grams
- Palawan flying squirrel raching a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Low’s squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Southern pygmy mouse
- True’s shrew mole
- Platypus
- Stripe-necked mongoose
- Highveld gerbil
- Common genet
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat
- Duthie’s golden mole
- Desert bandicoot
- Large treeshrew
Animals with the same weight as a Low’s squirrel
What other animals weight around 85 grams (0.19 lbs)?
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- Long-eared chipmunk weighting 83 grams
- Japanese mole weighting 82 grams
- Distinguished Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Long-clawed mole vole weighting 75 grams
- Shaw’s jird weighting 90 grams
- Cape gerbil weighting 92 grams
- Bocage’s mole-rat weighting 93 grams
- White-tailed rat weighting 86 grams
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 71 grams
Animals with the same size as a Low’s squirrel
Also reaching around 13.7 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Greater tree mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pale field rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain pygmy possum gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neblina slender opossum gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)