It is hard to guess what a Palmer’s chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Palmer’s chipmunk (Tamias palmeri) on average weights 60 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Palmer’s chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Palmer’s 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.
Palmer’s chipmunk (Neotamias palmeri) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, endemic to Nevada. Its natural habitat is temperate forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Palmer’s chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Borneo black-banded squirrel with a weight of 324 grams
- Kinabalu squirrel with a weight of 324 grams
- Siberian flying squirrel with a weight of 143 grams
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- Panamint chipmunk with a weight of 51 grams
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Gray-footed chipmunk with a weight of 70 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Jungle palm squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Palmer’s chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias palmeri:
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Vampyriscus nymphaea bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Great evening bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Grayish mouse opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s striped mouse bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Palmer’s chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Palmer’s chipmunk:
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ghost bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Transandinomys bolivaris with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Naked mole-rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mongolian gerbil with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Palmer’s chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Palmer’s chipmunk: