It is hard to guess what a Alexander’s bush squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Alexander’s bush squirrel (Paraxerus alexandri) on average weights 50 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Alexander’s bush squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 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.
Alexander’s bush squirrel (Paraxerus alexandri) is a species of squirrel native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. It is arboreal and lives in tropical moist forests, especially undisturbed mature forests. It is a common species with a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of “least concern”. Its common name and Latin binomial commemorate Lieutenant Boyd Alexander, a British Army officer, explorer and ornithologist.
Animals of the same family as a Alexander’s bush squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a weight of 243 grams
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a weight of 74 grams
- Mutable sun squirrel with a weight of 390 grams
- Allen’s squirrel with a weight of 465 grams
- Southern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 403 grams
- Tropical ground squirrel with a weight of 155 grams
- Indian palm squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Rock squirrel with a weight of 715 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Alexander’s bush squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus alexandri:
- Cairo spiny mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Alston’s cotton rat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Great fruit-eating bat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Great evening bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Dusky slender opossum bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Four-toed jerboa bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Prairie vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Alexander’s bush squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Alexander’s bush squirrel:
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Handley’s slender opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern grasshopper mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Least forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiruromys lamia with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)