How many baby Maritime striped squirrels are in a litter?
A Maritime striped squirrel (Tamiops maritimus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamiops). An adult Maritime striped squirrel grows up to a size of 13.2 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.
The maritime striped squirrel or eastern striped squirrel (Tamiops maritimus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in southern and eastern China (including Hainan), Taiwan, and Laos and Vietnam east of Mekong. This species is diurnal, highly arboreal and feeds on fruits, seeds, insects; in addition its diet includes nectar of ginger (Alpinia kwangsiensis).
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Maritime striped squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Northern flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gray marmot with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mindanao squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Samar squirrel weighting only 225 grams
- Bobak marmot with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sculptor squirrel raching a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ochre bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Olympic marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Maritime striped squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Blanford’s rat
- Silvery greater galago
- Japanese hare
- Giant otter shrew
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat
- Sandy inland mouse
- Littledale’s whistling rat
- Crested porcupine
- Lichtenstein’s jerboa
- Yellow golden mole
Animals with the same weight as a Maritime striped squirrel
What other animals weight around 66 grams (0.15 lbs)?
- One-striped opossum weighting 55 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat weighting 59 grams
- Oecomys phaeotis weighting 73 grams
- Boehm’s bush squirrel weighting 70 grams
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew weighting 57 grams
- Merriam’s chipmunk weighting 74 grams
- Melanomys zunigae weighting 53 grams
- Andean swamp rat weighting 64 grams
- Van Deusen’s rat weighting 67 grams
- Crab-eating rat weighting 66 grams
Animals with the same size as a Maritime striped squirrel
Also reaching around 13.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Gunning’s golden mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Heath mouse gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chiapan deer mouse gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-tailed antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern red-backed vole gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)