How many baby White-tailed antelope squirrels are in a litter?
A White-tailed antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus leucurus) usually gives birth to around 8 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 8 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 29 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Ammospermophilus). An adult White-tailed antelope squirrel grows up to a size of 15.1 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.
The white-tailed antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus leucurus) is a diurnal species of ground squirrel, scientifically classified in the order Rodentia and family Sciuridae, found in arid regions of the southwestern United States and the Baja California Peninsula of northwestern Mexico.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
White-tailed antelope squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Allen’s squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pallas’s squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel weighting around 1.48 kilograms (3.26 lbs)
- Hopi chipmunk weighting only 53 grams
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Groundhog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Striped bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel raching a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals that share a litter size with White-tailed antelope squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 8 babies at once:
- European polecat
- Cinnamon antechinus
- African wild dog
- White-footed dunnart
- Townsend’s ground squirrel
- Southern long-nosed armadillo
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
- Slender-tailed dunnart
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Virginia opossum
Animals that get as old as a White-tailed antelope squirrel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.75 years:
- Peters’s climbing rat with 5.33 years
- Least chipmunk with 6.25 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with 5 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with 5.17 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Cave nectar bat with 5 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with 5.58 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Hazel dormouse with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a White-tailed antelope squirrel
What other animals weight around 104 grams (0.23 lbs)?
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse weighting 89 grams
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat weighting 90 grams
- Mountain viscacha rat weighting 124 grams
- Cape gerbil weighting 92 grams
- Gray short-tailed opossum weighting 94 grams
- Pará spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Woolly mouse opossum weighting 107 grams
- Shaw’s jird weighting 90 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk weighting 89 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat weighting 106 grams
Animals with the same size as a White-tailed antelope squirrel
Also reaching around 15.1 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Sado mole gets as big as 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Fly River water rat gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rajah spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nimba otter shrew gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)