How many baby Shrew-faced squirrels are in a litter?
A Shrew-faced squirrel (Rhinosciurus laticaudatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 90 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Rhinosciurus). An adult Shrew-faced squirrel grows up to a size of 21 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 shrew-faced squirrel (Rhinosciurus laticaudatus), also known as the long-nosed squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Rhinosciurus. It is found in forests in Peninsular Malaysia (possibly also in adjacent southern Thailand), Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo. This peculiar, terrestrial squirrel mainly feeds on insects and earthworms. It quite closely resembles a Tupaia treeshrew in appearance, but the shrew-faced squirrel can be recognized by its shorter gape, and shorter and more bushy tail.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Shrew-faced squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s squirrel weighting only 650 grams
- Barbary ground squirrel becoming 9 years old
- Red squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Siskiyou chipmunk weighting only 75 grams
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel becoming 4.25 years old
- Zanj sun squirrel weighting only 347 grams
- Uinta ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Travancore flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tufted ground squirrel weighting around 1.35 kilograms (2.98 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Shrew-faced squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Malagasy serotine
- Giant anteater
- Red giant flying squirrel
- North Atlantic right whale
- Sea otter
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat
- Cuban solenodon
- Woodlark cuscus
- Juan Fernández fur seal
Animals with the same weight as a Shrew-faced squirrel
What other animals weight around 230 grams (0.51 lbs)?
- Common degu weighting 203 grams
- Southern mountain cavy weighting 261 grams
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat weighting 243 grams
- Bolivian squirrel weighting 190 grams
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat weighting 200 grams
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat weighting 218 grams
- Large-eared pika weighting 205 grams
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat weighting 239 grams
- Brush-tailed phascogale weighting 193 grams
- Sonoran woodrat weighting 227 grams
Animals with the same size as a Shrew-faced squirrel
Also reaching around 21 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- European hedgehog gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- European water vole gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Four-toed elephant shrew gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lowland ringtail possum gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Nicobar flying fox gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater dwarf lemur gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Busuanga squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Anthony’s woodrat gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)