How many baby Striped bush squirrels are in a litter?
A Striped bush squirrel (Paraxerus flavovittis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Paraxerus). An adult Striped bush squirrel grows up to a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″).
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 striped bush squirrel (Paraxerus flavovittis) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are moist savanna and plantations.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Striped bush squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Javanese flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Deppe’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel weighting only 130 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting only 675 grams
- Four-striped ground squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel weighting only 241 grams
- Congo rope squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Western gray squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Grizzled giant squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Striped bush squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Speke’s gazelle
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Yellow-bellied glider
- Rufous hare-wallaby
- Big free-tailed bat
- Thorold’s deer
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Striped bush squirrel
What other animals weight around 160 grams (0.35 lbs)?
- Dusky field rat weighting 157 grams
- Alpine pika weighting 150 grams
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat weighting 148 grams
- Baird’s pocket gopher weighting 136 grams
- Chacoan tuco-tuco weighting 166 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew weighting 170 grams
- Shipton’s mountain cavy weighting 185 grams
- Large vlei rat weighting 192 grams
- Egyptian fruit bat weighting 134 grams
- Edible dormouse weighting 128 grams
Animals with the same size as a Striped bush squirrel
Also reaching around 17.8 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Common gundi gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Roman mole gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- European water vole gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Admiralty flying fox gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Royle’s pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)