How many baby Unstriped ground squirrels are in a litter?
A Unstriped ground squirrel (Xerus rutilus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 20 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Xerus). An adult Unstriped ground squirrel grows up to a size of 22.2 cm (0′ 9″).
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 unstriped ground squirrel (Xerus rutilus) is a species of rodent (order Rodentia) in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Unstriped ground squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Indian giant squirrel weighting around 1.06 kilograms (2.34 lbs)
- Sanborn’s squirrel weighting only 136 grams
- Western dwarf squirrel weighting only 120 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel weighting only 87 grams
- Whiskered flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Abert’s squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Texas antelope squirrel with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Ochre bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Grey-bellied squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Unstriped ground squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern glider
- Indian pangolin
- Narwhal
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Whiskered flying squirrel
- Barasingha
- Guatemalan deer mouse
- African palm civet
- Dent’s vlei rat
- West Caucasian tur
Animals with the same weight as a Unstriped ground squirrel
What other animals weight around 317 grams (0.7 lbs)?
- Guaira spiny rat weighting 349 grams
- Sucre spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox weighting 351 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel weighting 300 grams
- Camas pocket gopher weighting 360 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Bower’s white-toothed rat weighting 355 grams
- Horse-tailed squirrel weighting 358 grams
- Silky anteater weighting 259 grams
Animals with the same size as a Unstriped ground squirrel
Also reaching around 22.2 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Hugh’s hedgehog gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian hedgehog gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sikkim rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Great-tailed triok gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ricefield rat gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Jentink’s squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky pocket gopher gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ornate flying fox gets as big as 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Baja California rock squirrel gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)