How many baby Variegated squirrels are in a litter?
A Variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sciurus). An adult Variegated squirrel grows up to a size of 26.3 cm (0′ 11″).
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 variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Fifteen subspecies are recognised. It is a common squirrel and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it a “least-concern species”. Variegated squirrels kept as pets in Germany have been implicated in the transmission of a bornavirus to humans from which three people have died.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Variegated squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Samar squirrel weighting only 225 grams
- Amazon dwarf squirrel weighting only 92 grams
- Red bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Gunnison’s prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel weighting only 130 grams
- Smith’s bush squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Grizzled giant squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Variegated squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Rufous mouse opossum
- Pilbara ningaui
- Olive grass mouse
- Merriam’s shrew
- Bobrinski’s jerboa
- American pygmy shrew
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Grey red-backed vole
- Water vole (North America)
- Crowned shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Variegated squirrel
What other animals weight around 485 grams (1.07 lbs)?
- Greater mole-rat weighting 470 grams
- Painted tree-rat weighting 519 grams
- Ryukyu flying fox weighting 491 grams
- Black-headed marmoset weighting 401 grams
- Cotton-top tamarin weighting 463 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher weighting 419 grams
- Franklin’s ground squirrel weighting 458 grams
- Malayan weasel weighting 569 grams
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni weighting 422 grams
- Striped bandicoot weighting 542 grams
Animals with the same size as a Variegated squirrel
Also reaching around 26.3 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Eastern woodrat gets as big as 21.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Saharan striped polecat gets as big as 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Yucatan squirrel gets as big as 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat gets as big as 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Yellow-bellied weasel gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Vogelkop ringtail possum gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Rakali gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Colombian weasel gets as big as 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)