How many baby Thomas’s rope squirrels are in a litter?
A Thomas’s rope squirrel (Funisciurus anerythrus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Funisciurus). An adult Thomas’s rope squirrel grows up to a size of 18.4 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.
Thomas’s rope squirrel or redless tree squirrel (Funisciurus anerythrus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Thomas’s rope squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Busuanga squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Daurian ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Xerus erythropus with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel weighting only 201 grams
- Alexander’s bush squirrel weighting only 50 grams
- Sanborn’s squirrel weighting only 136 grams
- Javanese flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kinabalu squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Thomas’s rope squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black wildebeest
- Northern glider
- Gayal
- Bushveld elephant shrew
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Blue duiker
- Chital
- African manatee
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Greater dog-like bat
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s rope squirrel
What other animals weight around 224 grams (0.49 lbs)?
- Mohave ground squirrel weighting 213 grams
- American red squirrel weighting 200 grams
- Townsend’s ground squirrel weighting 207 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat weighting 256 grams
- Long-haired rat weighting 221 grams
- Hairy-tailed antsangy weighting 219 grams
- Mountain weasel weighting 180 grams
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel weighting 241 grams
- Turkish hamster weighting 198 grams
- Robust tuco-tuco weighting 249 grams
Animals with the same size as a Thomas’s rope squirrel
Also reaching around 18.4 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Siberian chipmunk gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ashy-headed flying fox gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mariana fruit bat gets as big as 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pteropus gilliardi gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Busuanga squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)