How big does a Least chipmunk get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Least chipmunk (Tamias minimus) reaches an average size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 6.25 years, they grow from 2 grams (0 lbs) to 42 grams (0.09 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Least chipmunks have 4 babies about 1 times per year. The Least chipmunk (genus: Tamias) is a member of the family Sciuridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The least chipmunk (Neotamias minimus) is the smallest species of chipmunk and the most widespread in North America.
Animals of the same family as a Least chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Congo rope squirrel with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per litter
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 403 grams
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- Uinta chipmunk with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a Least chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Least chipmunk:
- Coast mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dusky hopping mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Star-nosed mole with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Highland brush mouse with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Least chipmunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Least chipmunk:
- Thomas’s pine vole
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Long-tailed shrew
- Sundevall’s jird
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Large-eared pika
- Northern bog lemming
- European water vole
- Great Basin pocket mouse
- El Carrizo deer mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Least chipmunk
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Least chipmunk:
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Tiger quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Evening bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.67 years
- Serotine bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Paucident planigale with an average maximal age of 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Least chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias minimus:
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Incan hocicudo bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Alpine chipmunk bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Lesser musky fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Djoongari bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Ammodile bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Southern vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Indian roundleaf bat bringing 44 grams to the scale