It is hard to guess what a Black-striped squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Black-striped squirrel (Callosciurus nigrovittatus) on average weights 209 grams (0.46 lbs).
The Black-striped squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Callosciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.3 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Black-striped squirrels have 2 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.
The black-striped squirrel (Callosciurus nigrovittatus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found throughout Java, Sumatra, southern Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and numerous small islands. This taxon consists of four subspecies: C. n. nigrovittatus, C. n. bilimitatus, C. n. bocki, and C. n. klossi. It is listed as “least concern” by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Black-striped squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Sculptor squirrel with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hoary marmot bringing 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs) to the scale
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a weight of 458 grams
- Long-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 743 grams
- Slender squirrel with a weight of 74 grams
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a weight of 224 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Mutable sun squirrel with a weight of 390 grams
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a weight of 207 grams
- Particolored flying squirrel with a weight of 255 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Black-striped squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Callosciurus nigrovittatus:
- Little ground squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Cameroon scaly-tail bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco bringing 202 grams to the scale
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Sonoran woodrat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s pocket gopher bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Arizona cotton rat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Black-striped squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Black-striped squirrel:
- Afghan pika with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yucatan squirrel with a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Lowland brush mouse with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ladak pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Barbary ground squirrel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert woodrat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Black-striped squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Black-striped squirrel: