How many baby Ochre bush squirrels are in a litter?
A Ochre bush squirrel (Paraxerus ochraceus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Paraxerus). An adult Ochre bush squirrel grows up to a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″).
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 ochre bush squirrel (Paraxerus ochraceus) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae found in Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Ochre bush squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting around 1.16 kilograms (2.56 lbs)
- Basilan flying squirrel raching a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-tailed prairie dog with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black and red bush squirrel weighting only 692 grams
- Piute ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Striped bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Siskiyou chipmunk weighting only 75 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Ochre bush squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
- Mayor’s mouse
- Common rufous-nosed rat
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Jaguarundi
- San Lorenzo mouse
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- African clawless otter
Animals with the same weight as a Ochre bush squirrel
What other animals weight around 104 grams (0.23 lbs)?
- Hero shrew weighting 91 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat weighting 90 grams
- Australian swamp rat weighting 106 grams
- Pygmy marmoset weighting 124 grams
- Betsileo short-tailed rat weighting 93 grams
- Angoni vlei rat weighting 100 grams
- Gorongoza gerbil weighting 118 grams
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel weighting 100 grams
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat weighting 87 grams
- Desert kangaroo rat weighting 108 grams
Animals with the same size as a Ochre bush squirrel
Also reaching around 16 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Eastern rock elephant shrew gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tete veld aethomys gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Naked mole-rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-throated woodrat gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Crest-tailed mulgara gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)