It is hard to guess what a Abert’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Abert’s squirrel (Sciurus aberti) on average weights 623 grams (1.37 lbs).
The Abert’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). It is usually born with about 12 grams (0.03 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.9 cm (0′ 11″). On average, Abert’s squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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.
Abert’s squirrel or the tassel-eared squirrel (Sciurus aberti) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus native to the southern Rocky Mountains from the United States to the northern Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico, with concentrations found in Arizona, the Grand Canyon, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado. It is closely associated with, and largely confined to, cool dry ponderosa pine forests. It is named in honor of the American naturalist John James Abert; nine subspecies are recognised. It is recognizable by its tufted ears, gray color, pale underparts and rufous patch on the lower back. The squirrel feeds on the seeds and cones of the Mexican pinyon and the ponderosa pine when they are available, but will also take fungi, buds, bark, and carrion. Breeding normally occurs in summer, with a spherical nest being built high in the canopy.
Animals of the same family as a Abert’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Olympic marmot bringing 6.3 kilos (13.89 lbs) to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a weight of 141 grams
- Congo rope squirrel with a weight of 112 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Eastern gray squirrel with a weight of 546 grams
- Mexican fox squirrel with a weight of 697 grams
- Mountain ground squirrel with a weight of 625 grams
- Long-eared chipmunk with a weight of 83 grams
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a weight of 186 grams
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a weight of 56 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Abert’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus aberti:
- Baja California rock squirrel bringing 551 grams to the scale
- Banded linsang bringing 684 grams to the scale
- Meerkat bringing 730 grams to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose bringing 711 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed bandicoot bringing 720 grams to the scale
- Arizona gray squirrel bringing 647 grams to the scale
- Black lion tamarin bringing 656 grams to the scale
- Solomons flying fox bringing 661 grams to the scale
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog bringing 690 grams to the scale
- Central Texas pocket gopher bringing 599 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Abert’s squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Abert’s squirrel:
- Poncelet’s giant rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Peruvian tuco-tuco with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Northern glider with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mimic tree rat with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mexican fox squirrel with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Abert’s squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Abert’s squirrel: