How many baby Red-tailed chipmunks are in a litter?
A Red-tailed chipmunk (Tamias ruficaudus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Red-tailed chipmunk grows up to a size of 12.4 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 red-tailed chipmunk (Neotamias ruficaudus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Alberta and British Columbia in Canada and Montana, Idaho and Washington in the United States.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Red-tailed chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Allen’s chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ochre bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting only 87 grams
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Black-striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Shrew-faced squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Washington ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-tailed chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Fawn-colored mouse
- Silver mountain vole
- Visayan warty pig
- Kemp’s gerbil
- European mink
- Rudd’s mouse
- Side-striped jackal
- Gray-collared chipmunk
- Yellow-bellied marmot
- Groundhog
Animals that get as old as a Red-tailed chipmunk
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8 years:
- Barbary ground squirrel with 9 years
- White-throated woodrat with 7.67 years
- Whiskered bat with 9.25 years
- European mole with 7 years
- Common ringtail possum with 8 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 8.5 years
- Eastern pygmy possum with 8 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel with 9.5 years
- Tasmanian devil with 8.17 years
- Red-flanked duiker with 9.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-tailed chipmunk
What other animals weight around 60 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Red mouse opossum weighting 63 grams
- California vole weighting 57 grams
- Dolorous grass mouse weighting 50 grams
- Temminck’s striped mouse weighting 60 grams
- Golden-brown mouse lemur weighting 58 grams
- Himalayan mole weighting 60 grams
- Social vole weighting 48 grams
- Southern big-eared mouse weighting 70 grams
- Mashona mole-rat weighting 65 grams
- Togo mouse weighting 55 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red-tailed chipmunk
Also reaching around 12.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-necked mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smoky mouse gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern collared lemming gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s mole gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gunning’s golden mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large tree mouse gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Patagonian opossum gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)