It is hard to guess what a Cooper’s mountain squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cooper’s mountain squirrel (Paraxerus cooperi) on average weights 250 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Cooper’s mountain squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). 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.
Cooper’s mountain squirrel (Paraxerus cooperi) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae found in Cameroon and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Animals of the same family as a Cooper’s mountain squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a weight of 241 grams
- Red-tailed squirrel with a weight of 319 grams
- Travancore flying squirrel with a weight of 794 grams
- Richmond’s squirrel with a weight of 237 grams
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a weight of 60 grams
- Indian palm squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per litter
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Indian giant flying squirrel bringing 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs) to the scale
- Shrew-faced squirrel with a weight of 230 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cooper’s mountain squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus cooperi:
- Northern glider bringing 278 grams to the scale
- Indochinese flying squirrel bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Collared tuco-tuco bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Speckled spiny tree-rat bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Southern spiny pocket mouse bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco bringing 202 grams to the scale
- Golden-backed tree-rat bringing 294 grams to the scale
- White-bellied nesomys bringing 214 grams to the scale