It is hard to guess what a Green bush squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Green bush squirrel (Paraxerus poensis) on average weights 100 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Green bush squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Green bush 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 green bush squirrel (Paraxerus poensis) is a species of rodents in the Sciuridae family.
Animals of the same family as a Green bush squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per litter
- Mexican ground squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
- Yucatan squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Menzbier’s marmot with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Durango chipmunk with a weight of 85 grams
- Javanese flying squirrel with a weight of 156 grams
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per litter
- Grey-bellied squirrel with a weight of 265 grams
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel bringing 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Green bush squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus poensis:
- Vinogradov’s jird bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Pará spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Ghana rufous-nosed rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Tiny tuco-tuco bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Green bush squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Green bush squirrel:
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Insular flying fox with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Javanese flying squirrel with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pallas’s squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ruddy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nectomys squamipes with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Green bush squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Green bush squirrel: