It is hard to guess what a Red-tailed chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red-tailed chipmunk (Tamias ruficaudus) on average weights 60 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Red-tailed chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). They can live for up to 8 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.4 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Red-tailed 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 red-tailed chipmunk (Neotamias ruficaudus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Alberta and British Columbia in Canada and Montana, Idaho and Washington in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Red-tailed chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Guayaquil squirrel with a weight of 433 grams
- Cliff chipmunk with a weight of 63 grams
- Northern palm squirrel with a weight of 102 grams
- Epixerus with a weight of 559 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Durango chipmunk with a weight of 85 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Least chipmunk with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red-tailed chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias ruficaudus:
- Golden-brown mouse lemur bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Pel’s pouched bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Transandinomys talamancae bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Andean mouse bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys chapmani bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Southern flying squirrel bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys lamia bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red-tailed chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red-tailed chipmunk:
- Pink fairy armadillo with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red-tailed chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Red-tailed chipmunk:
- Northern collared lemming
- Pygmy spotted skunk
- Pale fox
- Indian gerbil
- Talas tuco-tuco
- Gray-collared chipmunk
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat
- Kemp’s gerbil
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
- Turkestan rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red-tailed chipmunk
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red-tailed chipmunk:
- Woylie with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Cuban solenodon with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Cape gray mongoose with an average maximal age of 8.67 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Plantain squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.58 years
- Siberian weasel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Arctic hare with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with an average maximal age of 8 years