It is hard to guess what a Baja California rock squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Baja California rock squirrel (Spermophilus atricapillus) on average weights 551 grams (1.21 lbs).
The Baja California rock squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.5 cm (0′ 10″).
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 Baja California rock squirrel (Otospermophilus atricapillus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Baja California rock squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Red bush squirrel with a weight of 365 grams
- Palawan flying squirrel with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Olympic marmot bringing 6.3 kilos (13.89 lbs) to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel with a weight of 251 grams
- Borneo black-banded squirrel with a weight of 324 grams
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with a weight of 24 grams
- Kinabalu squirrel with a weight of 324 grams
- Indian giant squirrel bringing 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-throated squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Baja California rock squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus atricapillus:
- Bolivian tuco-tuco bringing 462 grams to the scale
- Painted ringtail possum bringing 639 grams to the scale
- Big pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Bulmer’s fruit bat bringing 621 grams to the scale
- JunÃn red squirrel bringing 482 grams to the scale
- Abert’s squirrel bringing 623 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- White-footed sportive lemur bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Pemba flying fox bringing 541 grams to the scale
- Allen’s squirrel bringing 465 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Baja California rock squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Baja California rock squirrel:
- Pied tamarin with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Variegated squirrel with a size of 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Poncelet’s giant rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Red slender loris with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Silvery lutung with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Cape ground squirrel with a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern sportive lemur with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Abert’s squirrel with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern gray squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Peters’s squirrel with a size of 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)