It is hard to guess what a Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus pusillus) on average weights 250 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel is from the family Anomaluridae (genus: Anomalurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.6 cm (0′ 8″).
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 dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus pusillus) is a species of rodent in the family Anomaluridae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Uganda. The species is nocturnal and arboreal and lives in subtropical or tropical lowland rainforest. Membranes attached to its limbs and tail enable it to glide between trees. This squirrel is currently not considered to be threatened by habitat destruction; “much of the habitat within parts of the known range of this species is relatively intact, and the species is unlikely to be experiencing any significant declines.”
Animals of the same family as a Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel
We found other animals of the Anomaluridae family:
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel with a weight of 479 grams
- Pel’s flying squirrel bringing 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) to the scale
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel with a weight of 665 grams
- Long-eared flying mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Cameroon scaly-tail with a weight of 200 grams
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel with a weight of 100 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Anomalurus pusillus:
- Patagonian weasel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s rope squirrel bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Temotu flying fox bringing 274 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel:
- Stein’s rat with a size of 17.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Colombian weasel with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky flying squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Dinagat gymnure with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brazilian squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sonoran woodrat with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)