How many baby Palmer’s chipmunks are in a litter?
A Palmer’s chipmunk (Tamias palmeri) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 33 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Palmer’s chipmunk grows up to a size of 12.5 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.
Palmer’s chipmunk (Neotamias palmeri) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, endemic to Nevada. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Palmer’s chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Red and white giant flying squirrel weighting around 1.5 kilograms (3.31 lbs)
- Palawan montane squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Groundhog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Slender-tailed squirrel weighting only 427 grams
- Western dwarf squirrel weighting only 120 grams
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel weighting only 277 grams
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Palmer’s chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Crab-eating fox
- Texas mouse
- Southeastern shrew
- Dusky caenolestid
- North African hedgehog
- Oligoryzomys fulvescens
- California chipmunk
- Mesquite mouse
- Gray climbing mouse
- Asian palm civet
Animals with the same weight as a Palmer’s chipmunk
What other animals weight around 60 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat weighting 59 grams
- Whitehead’s spiny rat weighting 57 grams
- Hylaeamys megacephalus weighting 57 grams
- Gray leaf-eared mouse weighting 68 grams
- Smoky mouse weighting 68 grams
- Dibbler weighting 72 grams
- Brown mouse lemur weighting 48 grams
- Hylaeamys yunganus weighting 60 grams
- Bushy-tailed jird weighting 56 grams
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat weighting 67 grams
Animals with the same size as a Palmer’s chipmunk
Also reaching around 12.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Junin slender opossum gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican mouse opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s striped mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Swift fruit bat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Townsend’s vole gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Polynesian rat gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)