It is hard to guess what a Cliff chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cliff chipmunk (Tamias dorsalis) on average weights 63 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Cliff chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Cliff chipmunks can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 cliff chipmunk (Neotamias dorsalis) is a small, bushy-tailed squirrel that typically lives along cliff walls or boulder fields bordering Pinyon-juniper woodlands in the Western United States and Mexico (commonly spotted in northern Arizona to Colorado). Cliff chipmunks are very agile, and can often be seen scaling steep cliff walls. Cliff chipmunks do not amass body fat as the more common ground squirrel does. They create a “stash” of food which they frequent during the cold winter months. The chipmunks size varies from 8-10 in. and weigh an average of 2.5 oz. These small creatures live to a staggering 12 1/2 years. The chipmunks are brown on their underside and gray on the back with white stripes on their face.
Animals of the same family as a Cliff chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- California chipmunk with a weight of 73 grams
- Arrow flying squirrel with a weight of 49 grams
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a weight of 207 grams
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with a weight of 36 grams
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a weight of 118 grams
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 277 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a weight of 141 grams
- Little ground squirrel with a weight of 174 grams
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a weight of 241 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cliff chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias dorsalis:
- Bushveld gerbil bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Oecomys concolor bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Mindomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Dark-tailed tree rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Nilgiri striped squirrel bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed climbing mouse bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Oecomys flavicans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cliff chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cliff chipmunk:
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater big-footed mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Maritime striped squirrel with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-footed mole with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cliff chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Cliff chipmunk: