It is hard to guess what a Durango chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Durango chipmunk (Tamias durangae) on average weights 85 grams (0.19 lbs).
The Durango chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Durango chipmunks have 2 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 Durango chipmunk (Neotamias durangae) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Durango chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a weight of 300 grams
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a weight of 118 grams
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni with a weight of 422 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Olympic marmot bringing 6.3 kilos (13.89 lbs) to the scale
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel with a weight of 199 grams
- Spermophilus relictus with a weight of 600 grams
- Groundhog bringing 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs) to the scale
- Western gray squirrel with a weight of 704 grams
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Durango chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias durangae:
- Cape gerbil bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Andean mouse bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Robert’s hocicudo bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Atherton antechinus bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Acacia rat bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed hopping mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Oecomys speciosus bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu spiny rat bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Big-eared swamp rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Durango chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Durango chipmunk:
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- African giant shrew with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common vole with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Australian swamp rat with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Least forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Durango chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Durango chipmunk: