It is hard to guess what a Congo rope squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Congo rope squirrel (Funisciurus congicus) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Congo rope squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Funisciurus). It is usually born with about 9 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 9.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.7 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Congo rope 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 Congo rope squirrel (Funisciurus congicus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Namibia.Its natural habitats are moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and rocky areas.
Animals of the same family as a Congo rope squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Xerus erythropus with a weight of 602 grams
- Gambian sun squirrel with a weight of 248 grams
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Spotted ground squirrel with a weight of 107 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Baja California rock squirrel with a weight of 551 grams
- Northern flying squirrel with a weight of 138 grams
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per litter
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel with a weight of 675 grams
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Congo rope squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Funisciurus congicus:
- Sula rat bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Greater tree mouse bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Phillips’s gerbil bringing 127 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Pygmy marmoset bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Woolly-headed spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Lowland streaked tenrec bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori otter shrew bringing 112 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Congo rope squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Congo rope squirrel:
- Marsh rice rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Plateau pika with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s cotton rat with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pink fairy armadillo with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pteropus gilliardi with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray slender opossum with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cerradomys subflavus with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Congo rope squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Congo rope squirrel:
- Brants’s whistling rat
- Tasmanian devil
- New Guinean jumping mouse
- Common treeshrew
- Aardwolf
- Cinereus ringtail possum
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Cape ground squirrel
- Lundomys
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Congo rope squirrel
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Congo rope squirrel:
- Snowshoe hare with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Striped possum with an average maximal age of 9.58 years
- Malagasy civet with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Four-horned antelope with an average maximal age of 10.75 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Southern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Rock cavy with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Myotis vivesi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Muskrat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with an average maximal age of 10.92 years