How many baby Tarbagan marmots are in a litter?
A Tarbagan marmot (Marmota sibirica) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 41 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 8.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Marmota). An adult Tarbagan marmot grows up to a size of 41.4 cm (1′ 5″).
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 Tarbagan marmot (Marmota sibirica) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in China (Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang), northern and western Mongolia, and Russia (southwest Siberia, Tuva, Transbaikalia). In the Mongolian Altai the range overlaps with that of the Gray marmot. The species was classified as endangered by the IUCN in 2008.Two subspecies are recognized:M. s. sibiricaM. s. caliginosus
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Tarbagan marmot is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Baja California rock squirrel weighting only 551 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kintampo rope squirrel weighting only 186 grams
- Smith’s bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel becoming 4.25 years old
- Prevost’s squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Richmond’s squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting only 675 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Tarbagan marmot
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once: