It is hard to guess what a Arrow flying squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arrow flying squirrel (Petinomys sagitta) on average weights 49 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Arrow flying squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Petinomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 arrow flying squirrel (Hylopetes sagitta) is a species of flying squirrel. It is endemic to Java, Indonesia. The population is unknown as it is only known from the type specimen from 1766. It is nocturnal and arboreal and may be found in primary and secondary forest. It is threatened by forest loss due to logging and agriculture and there are no known conservation actions.
Animals of the same family as a Arrow flying squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Utah prairie dog with a weight of 900 grams
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel with 7 babies per litter
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a weight of 201 grams
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s squirrel with a weight of 650 grams
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with a weight of 36 grams
- Santander dwarf squirrel with a weight of 99 grams
- Japanese squirrel with a weight of 264 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel with a weight of 104 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Arrow flying squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Petinomys sagitta:
- Yellow-footed antechinus bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Brown mouse lemur bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Common rock rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Irenomys bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s water mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Great roundleaf bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Oyapock’s fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Peters’s striped mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale