It is hard to guess what a Uinta chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Uinta chipmunk (Tamias umbrinus) on average weights 51 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Uinta chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.3 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Uinta chipmunks have 6 babies per litter.
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 Uinta chipmunk or hidden forest chipmunk (Neotamias umbrinus), is a species of chipmunk in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to the United States. Formerly known as Tamias umbrinus, phylogenetic studies have shown it to be sufficiently distinct from the eastern chipmunk as to be placed in a separate genus, Neotamias. The same studies have also suggested that Palmer’s chipmunk may actually be a subspecies of Uinta chipmunk, although the two are still generally regarded as separate species.
Animals of the same family as a Uinta chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a weight of 317 grams
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with a weight of 50 grams
- Epixerus with a weight of 559 grams
- JunÃn red squirrel with a weight of 482 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Red and white giant flying squirrel bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s squirrel with a weight of 650 grams
- Douglas squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a weight of 207 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Uinta chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias umbrinus:
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Alexander’s bush squirrel bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Chaco grass mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- White-throated grass mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Dusky slender opossum bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Shining thicket rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Oecomys concolor bringing 54 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Uinta chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Uinta chipmunk:
- Mexican vole with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spinifex hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Uinta chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Uinta chipmunk: