How many baby Vordermann’s flying squirrels are in a litter?
A Vordermann’s flying squirrel (Petinomys vordermanni) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 56 grams (0.12 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Petinomys). An adult Vordermann’s flying squirrel grows up to a size of 14.8 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.
Vordermann’s flying squirrel (Petinomys vordermanni) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Myanmar.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Vordermann’s flying squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- American red squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yucatan squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Amazon dwarf squirrel weighting only 92 grams
- Merriam’s chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- African pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Gray marmot with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bobak marmot with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Uinta ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Vordermann’s flying squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Golden palm civet
- Giant otter
- Bottego’s shrew
- Balkan snow vole
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Brown mouse lemur
- Asian black bear
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Marine otter
- Tome’s spiny rat
Animals with the same weight as a Vordermann’s flying squirrel
What other animals weight around 36 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Geoxus valdivianus weighting 31 grams
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat weighting 32 grams
- Mexican water mouse weighting 40 grams
- Broad-headed spiny rat weighting 30 grams
- Nayarit mouse weighting 40 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
- Wagner’s bonneted bat weighting 36 grams
- Rudd’s mouse weighting 35 grams
- Prairie vole weighting 42 grams
- Jalapan pine vole weighting 40 grams
Animals with the same size as a Vordermann’s flying squirrel
Also reaching around 14.8 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Hispid cotton rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pocket gopher gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland streaked tenrec gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sado mole gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Highland brush mouse gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)