It is hard to guess what a Black and red bush squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black and red bush squirrel (Paraxerus lucifer) on average weights 692 grams (1.53 lbs).
The Black and red bush squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.3 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 black and red bush squirrel (Paraxerus lucifer) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae occurring in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia. In Malawi, it is found in Misuku Hills and Nyika Plateau and in Tanzania Poroto Mountains and Mount Rungwe; it has not been found in Zambia where it was expected to occur in Mafinga Hills and Makutu Mountains. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It may be threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Black and red bush squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Variegated squirrel with a weight of 485 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 700 grams
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a weight of 243 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a weight of 127 grams
- Red bush squirrel with a weight of 365 grams
- Western gray squirrel with a weight of 704 grams
- Alexander’s bush squirrel with a weight of 50 grams
- Gambian sun squirrel with a weight of 248 grams
- Least chipmunk with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black and red bush squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus lucifer:
- Central Texas pocket gopher bringing 599 grams to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
- Golden lion tamarin bringing 593 grams to the scale
- Milne-Edwards’ sportive lemur bringing 822 grams to the scale
- Gunnison’s prairie dog bringing 798 grams to the scale
- Forest giant squirrel bringing 630 grams to the scale
- Central Texas pocket gopher bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Arizona gray squirrel bringing 647 grams to the scale
- Yellow-throated squirrel bringing 803 grams to the scale
- European mink bringing 567 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Black and red bush squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black and red bush squirrel:
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a size of 20.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-tailed giant rat with a size of 22.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-handed tamarin with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Big-headed African mole-rat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)