How many baby San Joaquin antelope squirrels are in a litter?
A San Joaquin antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus nelsoni) usually gives birth to around 8 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 8 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 26 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Ammospermophilus). An adult San Joaquin antelope squirrel grows up to a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″).
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 San Joaquin antelope squirrel or Nelson’s antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus nelsoni), is a species of antelope squirrel, in the San Joaquin Valley of the U.S. state of California.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
San Joaquin antelope squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Andean squirrel weighting only 803 grams
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Belding’s ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel becoming 4.25 years old
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Brooke’s squirrel weighting only 114 grams
- Allen’s squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Spermophilus relictus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Low’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with San Joaquin antelope squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 8 babies at once:
- White-footed dunnart
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster
- European polecat
- Chestnut dunnart
- Dusky antechinus
- Narrow-headed vole
- Golden hamster
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Townsend’s ground squirrel
- Cheesman’s gerbil
Animals that get as old as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.5 years:
- Cave nectar bat with 5 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Xerus erythropus with 6 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with 5 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with 5 years
- Woodland dormouse with 5.75 years
- Bunny rat with 5.5 years
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with 5 years
- Gansu pika with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel
What other animals weight around 160 grams (0.35 lbs)?
- Bolivian squirrel weighting 190 grams
- Attwater’s pocket gopher weighting 144 grams
- Masked flying fox weighting 130 grams
- Indian gerbil weighting 138 grams
- Western nesomys weighting 155 grams
- Dusky field rat weighting 157 grams
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel weighting 175 grams
- Alpine pika weighting 150 grams
- Javanese flying squirrel weighting 156 grams
- Hairless bat weighting 169 grams
Animals with the same size as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel
Also reaching around 16.8 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Heath mouse gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Desert kangaroo rat gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Goliath shrew gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Papuan bandicoot gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Green bush squirrel gets as big as 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)