How big does a Red-tailed chipmunk get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Red-tailed chipmunk (Tamias ruficaudus) reaches an average size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 8 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 60 grams (0.13 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Red-tailed chipmunks have 4 babies about 1 times per year. The Red-tailed 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 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:
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Vancouver Island marmot with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Piute ground squirrel with 7 babies per litter
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red giant flying squirrel with a size of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Hoary marmot with 4 babies per litter
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
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:
- Big-eared woolly bat with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- One-striped opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican volcano mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Maritime striped squirrel with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
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:
- Tondano rat
- Gunnison’s prairie dog
- Spinifex hopping mouse
- Indian gerbil
- Large bamboo rat
- Nyika climbing mouse
- Tamarisk jird
- Gray four-eyed opossum
- Large New Guinea spiny rat
- Atherton antechinus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red-tailed chipmunk
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red-tailed chipmunk:
- Common ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Eastern quoll with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Red-flanked duiker with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- European mole with an average maximal age of 7 years
- American hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Northern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 8 years
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:
- Arianus’s rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Ord’s kangaroo rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Flat-headed vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Cave nectar bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Puebla deer mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Pale gerbil bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Insular vole bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Cinnamon antechinus bringing 71 grams to the scale