How many baby Western gray squirrels are in a litter?
A Western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 43 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Western gray squirrel grows up to a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″).
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 western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) is an arboreal rodent found along the western coast of the United States and Mexico. It is a tree squirrel.In some places, this species has also been known as the silver-gray squirrel, the California gray squirrel, the Oregon gray squirrel, the Columbian gray squirrel and the banner-tail. There are three geographical subspecies: Sciurus griseus griseus (central Washington to the western Sierra Nevada in central California); S. g. nigripes (from south of San Francisco Bay to San Luis Obispo County, California); and S. g. anthonyi (which ranges from San Luis Obispo to northern Baja California).
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Western gray squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan striped squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian flying squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni weighting only 422 grams
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Columbian ground squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Red giant flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel weighting only 277 grams
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Western gray squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Texas kangaroo rat
- Mediterranean pine vole
- Asian particolored bat
- Pygmy marmoset
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Southern mountain cavy
- Short-tailed chinchilla
- Gray-bellied tree mouse
- Common genet
- Pied tamarin
Animals with the same weight as a Western gray squirrel
What other animals weight around 704 grams (1.55 lbs)?
- Northern sportive lemur weighting 760 grams
- Brush rabbit weighting 716 grams
- Meerkat weighting 730 grams
- Aotus infulatus weighting 800 grams
- Mexican fox squirrel weighting 697 grams
- Cape ground squirrel weighting 572 grams
- Guinea pig weighting 728 grams
- Cuban solenodon weighting 806 grams
- Black squirrel monkey weighting 784 grams
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting 750 grams
Animals with the same size as a Western gray squirrel
Also reaching around 29.4 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Hooded skunk gets as big as 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Volcano rabbit gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- European hedgehog gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner gets as big as 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Greater grison gets as big as 25.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Patagonian weasel gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Striped possum gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Crowned lemur gets as big as 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)