It is hard to guess what a Cream-coloured giant squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cream-coloured giant squirrel (Ratufa affinis) on average weights 1.16 kg (2.55 lbs).
The Cream-coloured giant squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Ratufa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34.3 cm (1′ 2″).
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 cream-coloured giant squirrel or pale giant squirrel (Ratufa affinis) is a large tree squirrel in the genus Ratufa found in forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra (Indonesia), Borneo (Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia) and nearby small islands. There have been no sightings in Singapore since 1995 and it is believed to be extinct. Reported sightings in Vietnam in 1984 are considered to be dubious.
Animals of the same family as a Cream-coloured giant squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Douglas squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 700 grams
- Vancouver Island marmot bringing 5.24 kilos (11.55 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a weight of 130 grams
- Tropical ground squirrel with a weight of 155 grams
- Yellow-throated squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel with a weight of 104 grams
- European ground squirrel with a weight of 396 grams
- Palmer’s chipmunk with a weight of 60 grams
- Brazilian squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cream-coloured giant squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ratufa affinis:
- Ashy black titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale
- Malagasy giant rat with a weight of 1.18 kilos (2.6 lbs)
- Chinese ferret-badger bringing 939 grams to the scale
- Northern olingo with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Hershkovitz’s titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Woylie with a weight of 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs)
- Herbert River ringtail possum with a weight of 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs)
- Spotted linsang with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Water opossum bringing 977 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cream-coloured giant squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cream-coloured giant squirrel:
- European polecat with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Hispaniolan solenodon with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Yarkand hare with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Marbled polecat with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Water opossum with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Red-bellied lemur with a size of 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Northern viscacha with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)