It is hard to guess what a Three-striped ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis) on average weights 175 grams (0.39 lbs).
The Three-striped ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Lariscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 three-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus insignis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand.
Animals of the same family as a Three-striped ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a weight of 201 grams
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a weight of 79 grams
- Low’s squirrel with a weight of 85 grams
- Javanese flying squirrel with a weight of 156 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a weight of 43 grams
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Baja California rock squirrel with a weight of 551 grams
- Peters’s squirrel with a weight of 650 grams
- Least pygmy squirrel with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Three-striped ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lariscus insignis:
- Moon-toothed degu bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Peleng tarsier bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed weasel bringing 191 grams to the scale
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Holochilus chacarius bringing 204 grams to the scale
- Red-crested tree-rat bringing 145 grams to the scale
- Dusky field rat bringing 157 grams to the scale
- Brazilian squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 151 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Three-striped ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Three-striped ground squirrel:
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ricefield rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Goliath shrew with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-eared hedgehog with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Greater tree mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)