It is hard to guess what a Striped bush squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Striped bush squirrel (Paraxerus flavovittis) on average weights 160 grams (0.35 lbs).
The Striped bush squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.8 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Striped bush squirrels have 1 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 striped bush squirrel (Paraxerus flavovittis) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae found in Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are moist savanna and plantations.
Animals of the same family as a Striped bush squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Eastern chipmunk with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per litter
- Andean squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Rock squirrel with a weight of 715 grams
- Yellow-bellied marmot bringing 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs) to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel with a weight of 251 grams
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a weight of 243 grams
- Uinta chipmunk with a weight of 51 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Striped bush squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus flavovittis:
- Large treeshrew bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Peters’s climbing rat bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Indian gerbil bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Holochilus brasiliensis bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Laminate vlei rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Leadbeater’s possum bringing 137 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Striped bush squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Striped bush squirrel:
- Admiralty flying fox with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Four-toed hedgehog with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray tree rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Cerradomys subflavus with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Richmond’s squirrel with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Steppe pika with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Striped bush squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Striped bush squirrel: