How many baby Ruwenzori sun squirrels are in a litter?
A Ruwenzori sun squirrel (Heliosciurus ruwenzorii) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Heliosciurus). An adult Ruwenzori sun squirrel grows up to a size of 22.6 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 Ruwenzori sun squirrel (Heliosciurus ruwenzorii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests and arable land.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Ruwenzori sun squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- African pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican fox squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Buller’s chipmunk with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s flying squirrel weighting only 56 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Least chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Particolored flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cliff chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ruwenzori sun squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Edward’s swamp rat
- African clawless otter
- Nyctophilus corbeni
- Guaira spiny rat
- Maned wolf
- Canada lynx
- Cape dune mole-rat
- American pika
- Golden mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Ruwenzori sun squirrel
What other animals weight around 291 grams (0.64 lbs)?
- Lombok flying fox weighting 256 grams
- Lesser flying fox weighting 296 grams
- Gray-footed spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Southern spiny pocket mouse weighting 268 grams
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat weighting 236 grams
- Napo spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- African striped weasel weighting 308 grams
- Gray slender loris weighting 254 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 285 grams
Animals with the same size as a Ruwenzori sun squirrel
Also reaching around 22.6 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Numbat gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Moluccan flying fox gets as big as 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- San MartÃn Island woodrat gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- European ground squirrel gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Golden lion tamarin gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Ceram fruit bat gets as big as 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-haired rat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)