It is hard to guess what a Shrew-faced squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Shrew-faced squirrel (Rhinosciurus laticaudatus) on average weights 230 grams (0.51 lbs).
The Shrew-faced squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Rhinosciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Shrew-faced 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 shrew-faced squirrel (Rhinosciurus laticaudatus), also known as the long-nosed squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Rhinosciurus. It is found in forests in Peninsular Malaysia (possibly also in adjacent southern Thailand), Singapore, Sumatra and Borneo. This peculiar, terrestrial squirrel mainly feeds on insects and earthworms. It quite closely resembles a Tupaia treeshrew in appearance, but the shrew-faced squirrel can be recognized by its shorter gape, and shorter and more bushy tail.
Animals of the same family as a Shrew-faced squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Western gray squirrel with a weight of 704 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 964 grams
- Alexander’s bush squirrel with a weight of 50 grams
- Layard’s palm squirrel with 2 babies per litter
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- Striped bush squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Yucatan squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Deppe’s squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Shrew-faced squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhinosciurus laticaudatus:
- Tucuman tuco-tuco bringing 217 grams to the scale
- Ashy chinchilla rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Shipton’s mountain cavy bringing 185 grams to the scale
- Senegal bushbaby bringing 216 grams to the scale
- Turkish hamster bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed spiny rat bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Savile’s bandicoot rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Shrew-faced squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Shrew-faced squirrel:
- Palawan flying squirrel with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Davao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Speckled dasyure with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Painted treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s squirrel with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Shrew-faced squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Shrew-faced squirrel: