It is hard to guess what a Allen’s chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Allen’s chipmunk (Tamias senex) on average weights 89 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Allen’s chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Allen’s chipmunks have 4 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Allen’s chipmunk (Neotamias senex) is a species of chipmunk. It is also known as the shadow chipmunk. It is native to the western United States, where it occurs in California, Nevada, and Oregon. It is a common species of the Sierra Nevada.This chipmunk lives in forests and chaparral. It is omnivorous. It is prey for minks, weasels, and owls. It is active all year round except during stretches of harsh winter weather.
Animals of the same family as a Allen’s chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel bringing 1.48 kilos (3.26 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted giant flying squirrel bringing 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs) to the scale
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a weight of 109 grams
- African pygmy squirrel with a weight of 16 grams
- Forest giant squirrel with a weight of 630 grams
- Particolored flying squirrel with a weight of 255 grams
- Richmond’s squirrel with a weight of 237 grams
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a weight of 61 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Allen’s chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias senex:
- Charming climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Northern pocket gopher bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Durango chipmunk bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu spiny rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Woodland Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Rhoads’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Taiga vole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Amazon dwarf squirrel bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Ashy-bellied Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Greater musky fruit bat bringing 79 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Allen’s chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Allen’s chipmunk:
- Palmer’s chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked white-tailed rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ochre bush squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Allen’s chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Allen’s chipmunk: