It is hard to guess what a Four-striped ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Four-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus hosei) on average weights 180 grams (0.4 lbs).
The Four-striped ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Lariscus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.2 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Four-striped ground 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 four-striped ground squirrel (Lariscus hosei) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Four-striped ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Siberian flying squirrel with a weight of 143 grams
- Western gray squirrel with a weight of 704 grams
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Piute ground squirrel with a weight of 165 grams
- Palawan montane squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Olympic marmot bringing 6.3 kilos (13.89 lbs) to the scale
- Western dwarf squirrel with a weight of 120 grams
- Xerus erythropus with a weight of 602 grams
- Plantain squirrel with a weight of 210 grams
- Santander dwarf squirrel with a weight of 99 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Four-striped ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lariscus hosei:
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Gray tree rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Bolaños woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Large vlei rat bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Mexican ground squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Nectomys squamipes bringing 185 grams to the scale
- Mohol bushbaby bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Fischer’s guiara bringing 188 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Four-striped ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Four-striped ground squirrel:
- Reddish tuco-tuco with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mountain spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-eared pika with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Four-striped ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Four-striped ground squirrel: