It is hard to guess what a Siberian chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Siberian chipmunk (Tamias sibiricus) on average weights 94 grams (0.21 lbs).
The Siberian chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.8 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Siberian 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 Siberian chipmunk or common chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus) appears across northern Asia from central Russia to China, Korea, and HokkaidÅ in northern Japan. Imported from South Korea and introduced in Europe as a pet in the 1960s, it is the only chipmunk found outside North America and is classed either as the only living member of the genus Eutamias, or as a member of a genus including all chipmunks.
Animals of the same family as a Siberian chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Least chipmunk with a weight of 42 grams
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with a weight of 104 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Shrew-faced squirrel with a weight of 230 grams
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Menzbier’s marmot with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Alpine marmot bringing 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs) to the scale
- Kinabalu squirrel with a weight of 324 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Siberian chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias sibiricus:
- Ansell’s mole-rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Harrington’s rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Coues’s climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Gray short-tailed opossum bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Peruvian Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed hopping mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Whiskered flying squirrel bringing 108 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Siberian chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Siberian chipmunk:
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern water rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern pika with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dollman’s melomys with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Siberian chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Siberian chipmunk: