It is hard to guess what a Gray-cheeked flying squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray-cheeked flying squirrel (Hylopetes lepidus) on average weights 63 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Gray-cheeked flying squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Hylopetes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Gray-cheeked flying 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 gray-cheeked flying squirrel (Hylopetes lepidus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Animals of the same family as a Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a weight of 74 grams
- Epixerus with a weight of 559 grams
- Whiskered flying squirrel with a weight of 108 grams
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a weight of 43 grams
- Arrow flying squirrel with a weight of 49 grams
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with a weight of 291 grams
- Gambian sun squirrel with a weight of 248 grams
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 277 grams
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a weight of 201 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hylopetes lepidus:
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Hottentot golden mole bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys legatus bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Coast mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Link rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Malayan water shrew bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Crete spiny mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Rufous elephant shrew bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray-cheeked flying squirrel:
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dollman’s melomys with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dwarf flying fox with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ochre bush squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Texas antelope squirrel with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palawan spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Gray-cheeked flying squirrel: