How many baby Sonoma chipmunks are in a litter?
A Sonoma chipmunk (Tamias sonomae) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Sonoma chipmunk grows up to a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″).
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 Sonoma chipmunk (Neotamias sonomae) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae. It is endemic to northwestern California in the United States. Members of Neotamias are characterized by having 2 premolars. N. sonomae has 2 subspecies: N. s. alleni and N. s. sonomae.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Sonoma chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Spotted ground squirrel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Busuanga squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Particolored flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray marmot with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ribboned rope squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Shrew-faced squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-capped marmot with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sonoma chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Alpine chipmunk
- Indian hedgehog
- Colorado chipmunk
- Hoary marmot
- Great Basin pocket mouse
- Cerradomys subflavus
- Marsh rice rat
- Altai mole
- Tamarisk jird
Animals with the same weight as a Sonoma chipmunk
What other animals weight around 75 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Darling Downs hopping mouse weighting 89 grams
- Spy hocicudo weighting 81 grams
- Nephelomys levipes weighting 60 grams
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis weighting 63 grams
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus weighting 79 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting 60 grams
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus weighting 71 grams
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 82 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sonoma chipmunk
Also reaching around 13.4 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panama slender opossum gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Highland brush mouse gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiapan deer mouse gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)