It is hard to guess what a Borneo black-banded squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Borneo black-banded squirrel (Callosciurus orestes) on average weights 324 grams (0.71 lbs).
The Borneo black-banded squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Callosciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.3 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Borneo black-banded squirrels have 3 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 Borneo black-banded squirrel (Callosciurus orestes) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to northern Borneo.
Animals of the same family as a Borneo black-banded squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a weight of 317 grams
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a weight of 109 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 277 grams
- Grey-bellied squirrel with a weight of 265 grams
- Buller’s chipmunk with a weight of 100 grams
- Spotted ground squirrel with a weight of 107 grams
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Red bush squirrel with a weight of 365 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Borneo black-banded squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Callosciurus orestes:
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Sucre spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Pygmy spotted skunk bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Emilia’s marmoset bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Montane bamboo rat bringing 382 grams to the scale
- Colombian spiny rat bringing 312 grams to the scale
- Geelvink Bay flying fox bringing 351 grams to the scale
- O’Connell’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Borneo black-banded squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Borneo black-banded squirrel:
- Pallas’s squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gray tree rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Echigo mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky flying squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Turkestan red pika with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red bush squirrel with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Borneo black-banded squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Borneo black-banded squirrel: