It is hard to guess what a Gray-footed chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray-footed chipmunk (Tamias canipes) on average weights 70 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Gray-footed chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.1 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Gray-footed chipmunks can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 gray-footed chipmunk (Neotamias canipes) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to New Mexico and in the Sierra Diablo and Guadalupe Mountains in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas in the United States. Its natural habitat is temperate forests.Favorite haunts of the gray-footed chipmunk are down logs at the edge of clearings. They occur also in dense stands of mixed timber (oaks, pines, firs) and on brushy hillsides, particularly where crevices in rocks offer retreats. When alarmed, they usually seek seclusion in crevices or burrows; occasionally they take to the trees.Their food consists of a variety of items such as acorns, seeds of Douglas fir, currants, gooseberries, mushrooms, green vegetation, and insects.Little is known of their breeding habits. The young are about half-grown in mid-summer and almost full-grown in September and October, but one female taken in August in the Guadalupe Mountains contained four embryos. One litter a year is normal.
Animals of the same family as a Gray-footed chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Least pygmy squirrel with a weight of 21 grams
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Rock squirrel with a weight of 715 grams
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 797 grams
- Perote ground squirrel with a weight of 140 grams
- Sculptor squirrel with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Brazilian squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-footed chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias canipes:
- Indian bush rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- California vole bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Aquatic rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Southern mole vole bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Greater musky fruit bat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Philippine dawn bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys levipes bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brunneus bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur bringing 78 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gray-footed chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray-footed chipmunk:
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Amazon weasel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray mouse lemur with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray-footed chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Gray-footed chipmunk: