It is hard to guess what a Western dwarf squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western dwarf squirrel (Microsciurus mimulus) on average weights 120 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Western dwarf squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Microsciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.6 cm (0′ 3″).
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 western dwarf squirrel (Microsciurus mimulus) is a small tree squirrel in the genus Microsciurus and tribe Sciurini found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.The table below lists the three recognized subspecies of Microsciurus mimulus, along with any synonyms associated with each subspecies:
Animals of the same family as a Western dwarf squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Palmer’s chipmunk with a weight of 60 grams
- Red and white giant flying squirrel bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a weight of 56 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Epixerus with a weight of 559 grams
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with a weight of 50 grams
- JunÃn red squirrel with a weight of 482 grams
- Palawan flying squirrel with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Red bush squirrel with a weight of 365 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Western dwarf squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microsciurus mimulus:
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Fraternal hill rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed opossum bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Sula rat bringing 131 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Woolly mouse opossum bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s bushbaby bringing 117 grams to the scale