It is hard to guess what a Boehm’s bush squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Boehm’s bush squirrel (Paraxerus boehmi) on average weights 70 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Boehm’s bush squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Boehm’s bush squirrels have 1 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.
Boehm’s bush squirrel (Paraxerus boehmi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, and moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Boehm’s bush squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Washington ground squirrel with a weight of 215 grams
- Cliff chipmunk with a weight of 63 grams
- Eastern gray squirrel with a weight of 546 grams
- Red bush squirrel with a weight of 365 grams
- Groundhog bringing 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs) to the scale
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a weight of 79 grams
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mindanao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Prevost’s squirrel with a weight of 400 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Boehm’s bush squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus boehmi:
- Kalinowski’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Big-eared kangaroo rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Cinnamon antechinus bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Chelemys macronyx bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Oxymycterus hucucha bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Western chestnut mouse bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Oecomys phaeotis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Mindomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Boehm’s bush squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Boehm’s bush squirrel:
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser tree mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mazama pocket gopher with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Biak glider with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Robert’s hocicudo with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Boehm’s bush squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Boehm’s bush squirrel: