How many baby Neotropical pygmy squirrels are in a litter?
A Neotropical pygmy squirrel (Sciurillus pusillus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sciurillus). An adult Neotropical pygmy squirrel grows up to a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Neotropical pygmy squirrel (Sciurillus pusillus) is a South American species of tree squirrel, being the only living species in the genus Sciurillus and the subfamily Sciurillinae. Genetic analysis has shown it to be the sister group to all other squirrels.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Neotropical pygmy squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Culion tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Horse-tailed squirrel weighting only 358 grams
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel raching a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel weighting only 109 grams
- Texas antelope squirrel with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Slender-tailed squirrel weighting only 427 grams
- Black and red bush squirrel weighting only 692 grams
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting only 201 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Neotropical pygmy squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- African pygmy squirrel
- Indian flying fox
- Hooded seal
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey
- Fulvus roundleaf bat
- Taiwan vole
- South American sea lion
- Spectacled flying fox
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
- Fraser’s dolphin
Animals with the same weight as a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
What other animals weight around 34 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Crested-tailed deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Jalapan pine vole weighting 40 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis weighting 38 grams
- Montane wood mouse weighting 36 grams
- Desert mouse weighting 37 grams
- Bibimys chacoensis weighting 28 grams
- Abrothrix jelskii weighting 34 grams
- Rudd’s mouse weighting 35 grams
- Oecomys bicolor weighting 37 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat weighting 32 grams
Animals with the same size as a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
Also reaching around 11.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Four-striped grass mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Flat-headed vole gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky hopping mouse gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali hedgehog gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)