It is hard to guess what a Deppe’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Deppe’s squirrel (Sciurus deppei) on average weights 250 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Deppe’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Deppe’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.
Deppe’s squirrel (Sciurus deppei) is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus native to Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua.
Animals of the same family as a Deppe’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Plantain squirrel with a weight of 210 grams
- Alpine chipmunk with a weight of 36 grams
- Groundhog bringing 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs) to the scale
- Daurian ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni with a weight of 422 grams
- Zanj sun squirrel with a weight of 347 grams
- Uinta ground squirrel with a weight of 307 grams
- European ground squirrel with a weight of 396 grams
- Red squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Deppe’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus deppei:
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Long-haired rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Siberian zokor bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s hedgehog bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Armored rat bringing 281 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Deppe’s squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Deppe’s squirrel:
- Davao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plantain squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sonoran woodrat with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Deppe’s squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Deppe’s squirrel: