It is hard to guess what a Carruther’s mountain squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Carruther’s mountain squirrel (Funisciurus carruthersi) on average weights 277 grams (0.61 lbs).
The Carruther’s mountain squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Funisciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.9 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 Carruther’s mountain squirrel (Funisciurus carruthersi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Animals of the same family as a Carruther’s mountain squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Cape ground squirrel with a weight of 572 grams
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel with 2 babies per litter
- Amazon dwarf squirrel with a weight of 92 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 700 grams
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a weight of 243 grams
- Mexican ground squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a weight of 227 grams
- Eastern gray squirrel with a weight of 546 grams
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with a weight of 325 grams
- Northern palm squirrel with a weight of 102 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Carruther’s mountain squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Funisciurus carruthersi:
- Squirrel glider bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Big-eared woodrat bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Yellow-bellied weasel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- Douglas squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- African striped weasel bringing 308 grams to the scale
- Smoky flying squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Straw-coloured fruit bat bringing 253 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Carruther’s mountain squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Carruther’s mountain squirrel:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater stick-nest rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Silvery lutung with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Amur hedgehog with a size of 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Cotton-top tamarin with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Peters’s squirrel with a size of 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Long-haired rat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)