It is hard to guess what a Allen’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Allen’s squirrel (Sciurus alleni) on average weights 465 grams (1.03 lbs).
The Allen’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.4 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Allen’s squirrels have 3 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.
Allen’s squirrel (Sciurus alleni) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to northern Mexico. It has no subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a Allen’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Speckled ground squirrel with a weight of 252 grams
- Hoary marmot bringing 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs) to the scale
- American red squirrel with a weight of 200 grams
- Panamint chipmunk with a weight of 51 grams
- Samar squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Sanborn’s squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Thomas’s flying squirrel bringing 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs) to the scale
- Slender squirrel with a weight of 74 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Allen’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus alleni:
- Slender-tailed squirrel bringing 427 grams to the scale
- Gilliard’s flying fox bringing 406 grams to the scale
- Little red flying fox bringing 379 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Striped bandicoot bringing 542 grams to the scale
- Striped possum bringing 413 grams to the scale
- White-lipped tamarin bringing 509 grams to the scale
- Russian desman bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel bringing 479 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Allen’s squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Allen’s squirrel:
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Long-tailed giant rat with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Earless water rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- American pika with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Allen’s squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Allen’s squirrel: