How many baby Smoky flying squirrels are in a litter?
A Smoky flying squirrel (Pteromyscus pulverulentus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 17 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Pteromyscus). An adult Smoky flying squirrel grows up to a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″).
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 smoky flying squirrel (Pteromyscus pulverulentus) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Pteromyscus. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Peninsular Malaysia, and southern Thailand, but its range may be more extensive than currently mapped. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is listed as endangered because of estimated population loss of 50% in past and future, judging from extensive and rapid habitat loss.According to records of sightings from Borneo and Malaysia, the species is only rarely sighted even in primary/pristine forest, although it lives mainly in these conditions. A threat to the population is habitat loss due to lower elevational range, restricting or preventing long-distance gliding needed to maintain a large range. It eats mostly fruits, nuts, and fungi found on nocturnal forays through the trees.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Smoky flying squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Epixerus with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel weighting only 250 grams
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting only 201 grams
- Arizona gray squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Javanese flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indochinese flying squirrel weighting only 227 grams
- Gray marmot with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Red bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Smoky flying squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Gray dorcopsis
- Southwestern myotis
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Philippine pygmy squirrel
- Tricolored bat
- Spotted bat
- Black howler
- Pygmy treeshrew
Animals with the same weight as a Smoky flying squirrel
What other animals weight around 251 grams (0.55 lbs)?
- Salta tuco-tuco weighting 230 grams
- Brandt’s hedgehog weighting 213 grams
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco weighting 202 grams
- Vogelkop ringtail possum weighting 255 grams
- Collared tuco-tuco weighting 210 grams
- Golden angwantibo weighting 235 grams
- Mentawai squirrel weighting 296 grams
- San MartÃn Island woodrat weighting 240 grams
- Senegal bushbaby weighting 216 grams
- Pacific spiny rat weighting 284 grams
Animals with the same size as a Smoky flying squirrel
Also reaching around 22.9 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Isarog shrew-rat gets as big as 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ear-spot squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Stoat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black rat gets as big as 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel gets as big as 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cape ground squirrel gets as big as 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Arizona gray squirrel gets as big as 26.4 cm (0′ 11″)