It is hard to guess what a Amazon dwarf squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Amazon dwarf squirrel (Microsciurus flaviventer) on average weights 92 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Amazon dwarf squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Microsciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.6 cm (0′ 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.
The Amazon dwarf squirrel (Microsciurus flaviventer) is a chipmunk-sized tree squirrel native to South America.
Animals of the same family as a Amazon dwarf squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
- Colorado chipmunk with a weight of 57 grams
- Yellow ground squirrel with a weight of 779 grams
- Washington ground squirrel with a weight of 215 grams
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a weight of 427 grams
- Variegated squirrel with a weight of 485 grams
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a weight of 358 grams
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Mutable sun squirrel with a weight of 390 grams
- Deppe’s squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Amazon dwarf squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microsciurus flaviventer:
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Common rufous-nosed rat bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Big-eared swamp rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Bramble Cay melomys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed mole vole bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Goliath shrew bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Biak glider bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Patagonian opossum bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 96 grams to the scale