It is hard to guess what a Collie’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Collie’s squirrel (Sciurus colliaei) on average weights 498 grams (1.1 lbs).
The Collie’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.4 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Collie’s 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.
Collie’s squirrel (Sciurus colliaei) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Collie’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a weight of 358 grams
- Menzbier’s marmot with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Siberian flying squirrel with a weight of 143 grams
- Perote ground squirrel with a weight of 140 grams
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a weight of 34 grams
- Allen’s squirrel with a weight of 465 grams
- Least chipmunk with a weight of 42 grams
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a weight of 201 grams
- Sculptor squirrel with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Collie’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus colliaei:
- Seychelles fruit bat bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Bolivian tuco-tuco bringing 462 grams to the scale
- Silky tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Lesser bamboo rat bringing 472 grams to the scale
- Malayan weasel bringing 569 grams to the scale
- Big pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Desert bandicoot bringing 499 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Collie’s squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Collie’s squirrel:
- Squirrel-toothed rat with a size of 26.4 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern woolly lemur with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Collared titi with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Saharan striped polecat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Yellow mongoose with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- New Guinean quoll with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- White-footed tamarin with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Long-fingered triok with a size of 23.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Collie’s squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Collie’s squirrel: