It is hard to guess what a California chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult California chipmunk (Tamias obscurus) on average weights 73 grams (0.16 lbs).
The California chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.8 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, California chipmunks have 3 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 California chipmunk or chaparral chipmunk (Neotamias obscurus) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae. It is found in Baja California, Mexico and in southern California in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a California chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni with a weight of 422 grams
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with a weight of 325 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with a weight of 227 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel with a weight of 675 grams
- Travancore flying squirrel with a weight of 794 grams
- Baja California rock squirrel with a weight of 551 grams
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a California chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias obscurus:
- Plains viscacha rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rutilus bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Japanese mole bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Long-footed water rat bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Spy hocicudo bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Slender Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Angular hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Smoky mouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a California chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as California chipmunk:
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sonoma chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sugar glider with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a California chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a California chipmunk: