How many baby Texas antelope squirrels are in a litter?
A Texas antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus interpres) usually gives birth to around 9 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 9 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Ammospermophilus). An adult Texas antelope squirrel grows up to a size of 15.2 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 Texas antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus interpres) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Mexico and in both Texas and New Mexico within the United States.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Texas antelope squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Indochinese flying squirrel weighting only 227 grams
- Gray marmot with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Olympic marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain ground squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Plantain squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Woolly flying squirrel raching a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- JunÃn red squirrel weighting only 482 grams
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Xerus erythropus with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Texas antelope squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 9 babies at once:
- Steppe polecat
- Sikkim rat
- Robinson’s mouse opossum
- Ricefield rat
- Turkish hamster
- Franklin’s ground squirrel
- Ciscaucasian hamster
Animals with the same weight as a Texas antelope squirrel
What other animals weight around 113 grams (0.25 lbs)?
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Green bush squirrel weighting 100 grams
- Southern three-striped opossum weighting 112 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel weighting 104 grams
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat weighting 125 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat weighting 121 grams
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 93 grams
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat weighting 100 grams
- Bare-backed rousette weighting 92 grams
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum weighting 112 grams
Animals with the same size as a Texas antelope squirrel
Also reaching around 15.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Rossel Island melomys gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hottentot golden mole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Low’s squirrel gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sugar glider gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kowari gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hairy-tailed mole gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)