It is hard to guess what a Douglas squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) on average weights 225 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Douglas squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamiasciurus). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Douglas squirrels can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) is a pine squirrel found in the Pacific Northwest of North America, including the coastal states of the United States as well as the southwestern coast of British Columbia in Canada. It is sometimes known as the chickaree or pine squirrel, although these names are also used for the American red squirrel. Variant spellings of the common name are Douglas’ squirrel and Douglas’s squirrel. The Native Americans of Kings River called it the “Pillillooeet”, in imitation of its characteristic alarm call.
Animals of the same family as a Douglas squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Alexander’s bush squirrel with a weight of 50 grams
- Gray marmot with 5 babies per litter
- Piute ground squirrel with a weight of 165 grams
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Santander dwarf squirrel with a weight of 99 grams
- Yellow-throated squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 700 grams
- Groundhog bringing 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted ground squirrel with a weight of 107 grams
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a weight of 300 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Douglas squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamiasciurus douglasii:
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Transbaikal zokor bringing 259 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest rat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s hedgehog bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Gambian sun squirrel bringing 248 grams to the scale
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- Vogelkop ringtail possum bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat bringing 251 grams to the scale
- White-throated woodrat bringing 208 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Douglas squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Douglas squirrel:
- Tropical pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chacoan tuco-tuco with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindoro black rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Richmond’s squirrel with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- New Guinean rat with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Douglas squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Douglas squirrel: