How many baby Plantain squirrels are in a litter?
A Plantain squirrel (Callosciurus notatus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5.35 kg (11.8 lbs) and measure 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Callosciurus). An adult Plantain squirrel grows up to a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″).
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 plantain squirrel, oriental squirrel or tricoloured squirrel (Callosciurus notatus) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand in a wide range of habitats: forests, mangroves, parks, gardens, and agricultural areas. Fruit farmers consider them to be pests.Its body is about 20–30 cm (8–12 in) long with a similar-sized tail. It is greyish/brown with a chestnut belly and a black and white stripe on the side. The genus name Callosciurus means beautiful squirrels.Its diet consists mostly of leaves and fruits, but it also eats insects and bird eggs. It is known to break open twigs that contain ant larvae to eat them. It can eat fruits much bigger than itself, such as mangoes, jackfruit, or coconuts. It is very quick and agile in trees, able to jump a few metres between trees, and rarely wanders on the ground.Kloss’s squirrel (Callosciurus albescens) is sometimes considered a subspecies.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Plantain squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Mutable sun squirrel weighting only 390 grams
- African pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jungle palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brooke’s squirrel weighting only 114 grams
- Mexican fox squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese squirrel weighting only 264 grams
- Southern flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Shrew-faced squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grey-bellied squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Plantain squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Collie’s squirrel
- Jungle palm squirrel
- Highland streaked tenrec
- Buettikofer’s shrew
- Mexican small-eared shrew
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Littledale’s whistling rat
- Gray mouse lemur
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
Animals that get as old as a Plantain squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.58 years:
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Snowshoe hare with 8 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with 8.58 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel with 9.5 years
- Cape gray mongoose with 8.67 years
- Dice’s cottontail with 9 years
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Black duiker with 10.17 years
- Gray dorcopsis with 8 years
- Striped possum with 9.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Plantain squirrel
What other animals weight around 210 grams (0.46 lbs)?
- Pale field rat weighting 169 grams
- Mexican woodrat weighting 203 grams
- Strong tuco-tuco weighting 233 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat weighting 224 grams
- White-bellied nesomys weighting 214 grams
- Peters’s climbing rat weighting 182 grams
- Smoky flying squirrel weighting 251 grams
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat weighting 179 grams
- Nectomys squamipes weighting 185 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat weighting 215 grams
Animals with the same size as a Plantain squirrel
Also reaching around 20.3 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Edible dormouse gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel gets as big as 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-footed treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Small sun squirrel gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Plateau pika gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Round-tailed muskrat gets as big as 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)