It is hard to guess what a Gambian sun squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gambian sun squirrel (Heliosciurus gambianus) on average weights 248 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Gambian sun squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Heliosciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.6 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Gambian sun 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.
The Gambian sun squirrel (Heliosciurus gambianus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Its natural habitat is wooded savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Gambian sun squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Tropical ground squirrel with a weight of 155 grams
- Southern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 403 grams
- Uinta chipmunk with a weight of 51 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Allen’s squirrel with a weight of 465 grams
- Douglas squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Red bush squirrel with a weight of 365 grams
- Smoky flying squirrel with a weight of 251 grams
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 148 grams
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a weight of 130 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gambian sun squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Heliosciurus gambianus:
- Speckled dasyure bringing 212 grams to the scale
- Common marmoset bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Pteropus brunneus bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Common degu bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 209 grams to the scale
- White-bellied nesomys bringing 214 grams to the scale
- Common dwarf mongoose bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Golden-backed tree-rat bringing 294 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antsangy bringing 205 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gambian sun squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gambian sun squirrel:
- Bryant’s woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Three-striped dasyure with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-striped squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- American pika with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- New Guinea waterside rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- New Guinean rat with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan flying squirrel with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gambian sun squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Gambian sun squirrel: