It is hard to guess what a Long-eared chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-eared chipmunk (Tamias quadrimaculatus) on average weights 83 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Long-eared chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Long-eared 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 long-eared chipmunk (Neotamias quadrimaculatus), also called the Sacramento chipmunk or the four-banded chipmunk, is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. It is endemic to the central and northern Sierra Nevada of California and Nevada in the United States. Long-eared chipmunks have the longest ears of all species of chipmunks.
Animals of the same family as a Long-eared chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Red-tailed squirrel with a weight of 319 grams
- Barbary ground squirrel with a weight of 251 grams
- Tufted ground squirrel bringing 1.35 kilos (2.98 lbs) to the scale
- Piute ground squirrel with a weight of 165 grams
- Durango chipmunk with a weight of 85 grams
- Yellow ground squirrel with a weight of 779 grams
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a weight of 427 grams
- Red giant flying squirrel bringing 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs) to the scale
- Little ground squirrel with a weight of 174 grams
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with a weight of 325 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-eared chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias quadrimaculatus:
- Arnhem Land rock rat bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Golden hamster bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Striped Atlantic Forest rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Allen’s chipmunk bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Greater nectar bat bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Western chestnut mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-eared chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-eared chipmunk:
- Ghost bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-eared chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Long-eared chipmunk: