How many baby Panamint chipmunks are in a litter?
A Panamint chipmunk (Tamias panamintinus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 36 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Panamint chipmunk grows up to a size of 11.6 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 Panamint chipmunk (Neotamias panamintinus) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. It is endemic to desert mountain areas of southeast California and southwest Nevada in the United States.It is considered a species of least concern on the IUCN Red List due to its broad range, prevalence, and no known major threats. The Panamint chipmunk occurs in pinyon pine-juniper woodlands in bushes, boulders, and on cliffs.Environmentally, the Panamint chipmunks are a prey species that contributes to the diets of their predators, including birds, raptors, coyotes, foxes, and bobcats.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Panamint chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Western gray squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Collie’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel weighting only 30 grams
- Eastern chipmunk raching a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tufted ground squirrel weighting around 1.35 kilograms (2.98 lbs)
- Grizzled giant squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-throated squirrel weighting only 803 grams
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Xerus erythropus with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly flying squirrel raching a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
Animals that share a litter size with Panamint chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- African groove-toothed rat
- Colorado chipmunk
- Olympic marmot
- Australian swamp rat
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat
- Lataste’s gerbil
- Sonoma chipmunk
- Groundhog
- Etruscan shrew
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo
Animals with the same weight as a Panamint chipmunk
What other animals weight around 51 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Montane vole weighting 42 grams
- Naked-rumped pouched bat weighting 43 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting 56 grams
- Nikolaus’s mouse weighting 52 grams
- Asian house shrew weighting 43 grams
- Pel’s pouched bat weighting 53 grams
- Black-bellied fruit bat weighting 47 grams
- Brucepattersonius iheringi weighting 43 grams
- Guatemalan vole weighting 42 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting 49 grams
Animals with the same size as a Panamint chipmunk
Also reaching around 11.6 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Long-tailed mouse gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-footed chipmunk gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-toothed brush mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Parantechinus bilarni gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Meadow vole gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olive grass mouse gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)