It is hard to guess what a Brooke’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brooke’s squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei) on average weights 114 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Brooke’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sundasciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.6 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Brooke’s squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. It was named for Charles Brooke, the second White Rajah of Sarawak by Oldfield Thomas from a specimen collected by Charles Hose on Mt Dulit.
Animals of the same family as a Brooke’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a weight of 186 grams
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Plantain squirrel with a weight of 210 grams
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Perote ground squirrel with a weight of 140 grams
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a weight of 30 grams
- Richmond’s squirrel with a weight of 237 grams
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 797 grams
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Whiskered flying squirrel with a weight of 108 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brooke’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sundasciurus brookei:
- New Guinean rat bringing 133 grams to the scale
- Philippine tarsier bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Littledale’s whistling rat bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Woolly giant rat bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Bush vlei rat bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Hastings River mouse bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Vinogradov’s jird bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel bringing 109 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Brooke’s squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brooke’s squirrel:
- Allen’s cotton rat with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ear-spot squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian pika with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Douglas squirrel with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Maxomys baeodon with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Small flying fox with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)