How many baby Yellow-pine chipmunks are in a litter?
A Yellow-pine chipmunk (Tamias amoenus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Tamias). An adult Yellow-pine chipmunk grows up to a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″).
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 yellow-pine chipmunk (Neotamias amoenus) is a species of order Rodentia in the family Sciuridae. It is found in western North America: parts of Canada and the United States.These chipmunks are normally found in brush-covered areas, and in California, they inhabit an elevation range of around 975 to 2,900 meters.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Yellow-pine chipmunk is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mentawai squirrel weighting only 296 grams
- Arizona gray squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Slender-tailed squirrel weighting only 427 grams
- Red bush squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Andean squirrel weighting only 803 grams
- Slender squirrel with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Panamint chipmunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with 8 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Yellow-pine chipmunk
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Daurian pika
- Montane shrew
- Northern gracile opossum
- Cutch rat
- Sagebrush vole
- Kultarr
- Vagrant shrew
- Silent dormouse
- Meadow vole
- Middendorf’s vole
Animals that get as old as a Yellow-pine chipmunk
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.17 years:
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- African striped weasel with 5.17 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Gansu pika with 5 years
- Xerus erythropus with 6 years
- Silky pocket mouse with 5 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with 5 years
- Greater bulldog bat with 5.75 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with 5.83 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-pine chipmunk
What other animals weight around 50 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Siberian brown lemming weighting 58 grams
- Arrow flying squirrel weighting 49 grams
- Murree vole weighting 52 grams
- White-throated grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Hopi chipmunk weighting 53 grams
- Northern collared lemming weighting 46 grams
- Ivory Coast rat weighting 52 grams
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 60 grams
- Woodland thicket rat weighting 42 grams
- Greater noctule bat weighting 45 grams
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-pine chipmunk
Also reaching around 12 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Gray-collared chipmunk gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Irenomys gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Brown mouse lemur gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindoro climbing rat gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ord’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)