It is hard to guess what a Brazilian squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brazilian squirrel (Sciurus aestuans) on average weights 177 grams (0.39 lbs).
The Brazilian squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.2 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 Brazilian squirrel (or Guianan squirrel) (Sciurus aestuans) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to South America. It is found in South-eastern Colombia, Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname and Venezuela.It is a dark brown squirrel that feeds mainly on fruits and nuts, but can also prey on eggs and the young of birds.
Animals of the same family as a Brazilian squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Shrew-faced squirrel with a weight of 230 grams
- Mentawai squirrel with a weight of 296 grams
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a weight of 222 grams
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per litter
- Smoky flying squirrel with a weight of 251 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 964 grams
- Striped bush squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a weight of 141 grams
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel with a weight of 199 grams
- Yellow-throated squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brazilian squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus aestuans:
- Holochilus brasiliensis bringing 155 grams to the scale
- Holochilus chacarius bringing 204 grams to the scale
- Island mouse bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Ochre mole-rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed phascogale bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Large vlei rat bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Luzon striped rat bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat bringing 196 grams to the scale
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Brazilian squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brazilian squirrel:
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Admiralty flying fox with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Striped treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)