How many baby Red-tailed squirrels are in a litter?
A Red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sciurus). An adult Red-tailed squirrel grows up to a size of 22.2 cm (0′ 9″).
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 squirrel (Notosciurus granatensis) is a largish tree squirrel distributed from southern Central to northern South America.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Red-tailed squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Vancouver Island marmot with 3 babies per pregnancy
- JunÃn red squirrel weighting only 482 grams
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel weighting only 277 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Travancore flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Least pygmy squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-tailed squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Siberian musk deer
- Acuminate horseshoe bat
- Cuban solenodon
- Hershkovitz’s titi
- Western tree hyrax
- Magdalena rat
- Royal antelope
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Dwarf sperm whale
- White-footed sportive lemur
Animals with the same weight as a Red-tailed squirrel
What other animals weight around 319 grams (0.7 lbs)?
- Mechow’s mole-rat weighting 272 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat weighting 314 grams
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat weighting 312 grams
- Eastern small-toothed rat weighting 357 grams
- Yellow-bellied weasel weighting 264 grams
- Guyenne spiny rat weighting 315 grams
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat weighting 304 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher weighting 267 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat weighting 256 grams
- Guyanan spiny rat weighting 284 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red-tailed squirrel
Also reaching around 22.2 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Ear-spot squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel gets as big as 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large Luzon forest rat gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lesser flying fox gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon broad-toothed rat gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Allen’s woodrat gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Javanese flying squirrel gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner gets as big as 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)