It is hard to guess what a Alpine chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Alpine chipmunk (Tamias alpinus) on average weights 36 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Alpine chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.4 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Alpine 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.
The alpine chipmunk (Neotamias alpinus) is a species of chipmunk native to the high elevations of the Sierra Nevada of California.
Animals of the same family as a Alpine chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Texas antelope squirrel with a weight of 113 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 700 grams
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni with a weight of 422 grams
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a weight of 127 grams
- Thomas’s flying squirrel bringing 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs) to the scale
- Grey-bellied squirrel with a weight of 265 grams
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a weight of 130 grams
- Yellow ground squirrel with a weight of 779 grams
- Mexican gray squirrel with a weight of 456 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Alpine chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias alpinus:
- Japanese grass vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Smith’s vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Deroo’s mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Northern mole vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- El Carrizo deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Tawny deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Pygmy mouse lemur bringing 31 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Alpine chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Alpine chipmunk:
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sulawesi rousette with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Champion’s tree mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Alpine chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Alpine chipmunk: