It is hard to guess what a Least pygmy squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Least pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus exilis) on average weights 21 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Least pygmy squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Exilisciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Least pygmy squirrels have 2 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 least pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus exilis), also known as the plain pygmy squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. This plain olive-brown squirrel is endemic to forests, mostly below an altitude of 750 m (2,500 ft) but locally significantly higher, on the Southeast Asian islands of Borneo, Sumatra and Banggi. Together with the African pygmy squirrel, the least pygmy squirrel is the smallest squirrel in the world, having a total length of 10–14 cm (3.9–5.5 in) and a weight of 12–26 g (0.42–0.92 oz).
Animals of the same family as a Least pygmy squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Green bush squirrel with a weight of 100 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Colorado chipmunk with a weight of 57 grams
- Black-capped marmot with 5 babies per litter
- Mexican prairie dog with a weight of 900 grams
- Shrew-faced squirrel with a weight of 230 grams
- Gambian sun squirrel with a weight of 248 grams
- Hagen’s flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same weight as a Least pygmy squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Exilisciurus exilis:
- Kemp’s spiny mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Schultz’s round-eared bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Javan slit-faced bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Tree bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Harlequin bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Small-toothed harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- White-footed dunnart bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern gracile opossum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Alpine pine vole bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Least pygmy squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Least pygmy squirrel:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bates’s shrew with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiga shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pacific shrew with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 7.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Least pygmy squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Least pygmy squirrel: