It is hard to guess what a Fire-footed rope squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fire-footed rope squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus) on average weights 243 grams (0.54 lbs).
The Fire-footed rope squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Funisciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.5 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Fire-footed rope squirrels have 1 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.
The fire-footed rope squirrel (Funisciurus pyrropus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, moist savanna, and plantations.
Animals of the same family as a Fire-footed rope squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Hagen’s flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Eastern chipmunk with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japanese squirrel with a weight of 264 grams
- Mountain ground squirrel with a weight of 625 grams
- Ear-spot squirrel with a weight of 209 grams
- Sonoma chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a weight of 317 grams
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a weight of 79 grams
- Palawan flying squirrel with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same weight as a Fire-footed rope squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Funisciurus pyrropus:
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Round-tailed muskrat bringing 265 grams to the scale
- Magdalena spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- White-tailed olalla rat bringing 274 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s pocket gopher bringing 263 grams to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Mexican woodrat bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Savile’s bandicoot rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Southern spiny pocket mouse bringing 268 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Fire-footed rope squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Fire-footed rope squirrel:
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Papuan bandicoot with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Greater dwarf lemur with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Fire-footed rope squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Fire-footed rope squirrel: