How many baby Yucatan squirrels are in a litter?
A Yucatan squirrel (Sciurus yucatanensis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Sciurus). An adult Yucatan squirrel grows up to a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″).
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 Yucatan squirrel ( (listen), Sciurus yucatanensis), originally named the Yucatan gray squirrel, also once named the Campeche squirrel, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in the Yucatán Peninsula and adjacent areas. It is native to northern Belize, northeastern Guatemala, and southeast Mexico.
Other animals of the family Sciuridae
Yucatan squirrel is a member of the Sciuridae, as are these animals:
- Red giant flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Menzbier’s marmot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Western dwarf squirrel weighting only 120 grams
- Long-eared chipmunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Black giant squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican fox squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sanborn’s squirrel weighting only 136 grams
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk weighting only 91 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Yucatan squirrel
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Asian palm civet
- Cheetah
- True’s shrew mole
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- Small Japanese mole
- Plains pocket gopher
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
- Red river hog
- Rajah spiny rat
- Northern three-toed jerboa
Animals with the same weight as a Yucatan squirrel
What other animals weight around 225 grams (0.5 lbs)?
- Strong tuco-tuco weighting 233 grams
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat weighting 260 grams
- San Martín Island woodrat weighting 240 grams
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat weighting 224 grams
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher weighting 267 grams
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur weighting 197 grams
- Douglas squirrel weighting 225 grams
- Peters’s climbing rat weighting 182 grams
- Senegal bushbaby weighting 216 grams
- White-footed rabbit-rat weighting 200 grams
Animals with the same size as a Yucatan squirrel
Also reaching around 23.6 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Painted ringtail possum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Prevost’s squirrel gets as big as 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Barbary ground squirrel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ear-spot squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed weasel gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Greater grison gets as big as 25.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)