It is hard to guess what a Least chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Least chipmunk (Tamias minimus) on average weights 42 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Least chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 6.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Least chipmunks can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus) is the smallest species of chipmunk and the most widespread in North America.
Animals of the same family as a Least chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-eared chipmunk with a weight of 83 grams
- Arctic ground squirrel with a weight of 747 grams
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a weight of 458 grams
- Low’s squirrel with a weight of 85 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Brazilian squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
- Samar squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Cliff chipmunk with a weight of 63 grams
- Cape ground squirrel with a weight of 572 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Least chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias minimus:
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Champion’s tree mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Defua rat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Hispid hocicudo bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Chelemys megalonyx bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Yellow-pine chipmunk bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Brucepattersonius iheringi bringing 43 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Least chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Least chipmunk:
- Sclater’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- African giant shrew with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woolly dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ash-grey mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Zempoaltépec vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Least chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Least chipmunk:
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo
- Hooded skunk
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Zygodontomys brevicauda
- Shrew gymnure
- Nectomys squamipes
- Long-clawed ground squirrel
- Desert pocket gopher
- Greater white-toothed shrew
- Culpeo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Least chipmunk
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Least chipmunk:
- Northern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Peters’s climbing rat with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bushy-tailed jird with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Kowari with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Xerus erythropus with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Saharan striped polecat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 6 years
- American pika with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with an average maximal age of 6 years