How many baby Whiskered flying squirrels are in a litter?
A Whiskered flying squirrel (Petinomys genibarbis) usually gives birth to around 1 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 Whiskered flying squirrel grows up to a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 whiskered flying squirrel (Petinomys genibarbis) is a species of flying squirrel. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Whiskered flying squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel weighting around 1.16 kilograms (2.56 lbs)
- Kashmir flying squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Baja California rock squirrel weighting only 551 grams
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel weighting around 1.48 kilograms (3.26 lbs)
- Variegated squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Southern Amazon red squirrel weighting only 403 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Daurian ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Jungle palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Whiskered flying squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Malagasy giant rat
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Stein’s cuscus
- Black bearded saki
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Siberian musk deer
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Little free-tailed bat
- Spectral tarsier
Animals with the same weight as a Whiskered flying squirrel
What other animals weight around 108 grams (0.24 lbs)?
- Kowari weighting 112 grams
- Goliath shrew weighting 87 grams
- Central rock rat weighting 100 grams
- Ellerman’s tufted-tailed rat weighting 100 grams
- Vinogradov’s jird weighting 117 grams
- Isarog shrew-rat weighting 122 grams
- Slender rat weighting 97 grams
- Angoni vlei rat weighting 100 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew weighting 112 grams
- Giant kangaroo rat weighting 114 grams
Animals with the same size as a Whiskered flying squirrel
Also reaching around 17.7 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Hastings River mouse gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Big-eared climbing rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tropical ground squirrel gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Edible dormouse gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel gets as big as 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ribboned rope squirrel gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)