It is hard to guess what a Golden-mantled ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis) on average weights 175 grams (0.39 lbs).
The Golden-mantled ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). It is usually born with about 6 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.4 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Golden-mantled ground squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a ground squirrel native to western North America. It is distributed in British Columbia and Alberta through the western United States to California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Golden-mantled ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Japanese squirrel with a weight of 264 grams
- Utah prairie dog with a weight of 900 grams
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Yucatan squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a weight of 60 grams
- Black and red bush squirrel with a weight of 692 grams
- Alpine marmot bringing 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs) to the scale
- Plantain squirrel with a weight of 210 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden-mantled ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus lateralis:
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Bolaños woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Laminate vlei rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- White-throated woodrat bringing 208 grams to the scale
- Spectral tarsier bringing 166 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- New Caledonia flying fox bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Guam flying fox bringing 153 grams to the scale
- Alpine pika bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden-mantled ground squirrel:
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Palawan montane squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hagen’s flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- American red squirrel with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Painted treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Golden-mantled ground squirrel: