How many baby Mexican fox squirrels are in a litter?
A Mexican fox squirrel (Sciurus nayaritensis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sciurus). An adult Mexican fox squirrel grows up to a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″).
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 Mexican fox squirrel (Sciurus nayaritensis) is a species of tree squirrel found throughout the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico as far south as Jalisco — and northward into the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona, U.S.This species, or its subspecies, is sometimes called the Nayarit, Apache, or Chiricahua fox squirrel. It has been evaluated as an IUCN Red List Least Concern species.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Mexican fox squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Prevost’s squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Northern palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Collie’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Columbian ground squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Grizzled giant squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-eared chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Cape ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ribboned rope squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mexican fox squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Glacier rat
- Large treeshrew
- Guyenne spiny rat
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat
- Southern pocket gopher
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- Unalaska collared lemming
- Collie’s squirrel
- Brown hyena
- Tayra
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican fox squirrel
What other animals weight around 697 grams (1.54 lbs)?
- Greater bandicoot rat weighting 583 grams
- Rakali weighting 626 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting 675 grams
- Spectacled flying fox weighting 759 grams
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey weighting 791 grams
- Arctic ground squirrel weighting 747 grams
- Malayan weasel weighting 569 grams
- Black-tailed prairie dog weighting 797 grams
- Stump-tailed porcupine weighting 832 grams
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting 750 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mexican fox squirrel
Also reaching around 28.3 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Amur hedgehog gets as big as 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew gets as big as 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black giant squirrel gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ring-tailed cat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Malagasy giant rat gets as big as 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brush rabbit gets as big as 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Xerus erythropus gets as big as 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern gray squirrel gets as big as 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)