It is hard to guess what a Grey-bellied squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps) on average weights 265 grams (0.58 lbs).
The Grey-bellied squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Callosciurus). They can live for up to 9.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.1 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Grey-bellied 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 grey-bellied squirrel (Callosciurus caniceps) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in forests, plantations and gardens in Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand, southern Myanmar, southern China (Yunnan) and possibly western Laos. It has been introduced in the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. As suggested by its name, its belly is usually grey, though sometimes reddish on the sides. Depending on subspecies and season, the upperparts are grey, yellowish-olive or reddish.
Animals of the same family as a Grey-bellied squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Philippine pygmy squirrel with a weight of 27 grams
- Indian giant flying squirrel bringing 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs) to the scale
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Samar squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Groundhog bringing 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs) to the scale
- Sonoma chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Richmond’s squirrel with a weight of 237 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Grey-bellied squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Callosciurus caniceps:
- White-bellied nesomys bringing 214 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s rope squirrel bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Samoa flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Greater hedgehog tenrec bringing 277 grams to the scale
- Speckled ground squirrel bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 267 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Grey-bellied squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Grey-bellied squirrel:
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Papuan bandicoot with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Moluccan flying fox with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Insular flying fox with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Buffy-headed marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Southern Plains woodrat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern mountain cavy with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Colombian weasel with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lowland brush mouse with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Grey-bellied squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Grey-bellied squirrel:
- Round-tailed muskrat
- Maned wolf
- Van Deusen’s rat
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- False water rat
- Brown hyena
- African striped weasel
- Common gundi
- Caracal
- Chacoan peccary
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Grey-bellied squirrel
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Grey-bellied squirrel:
- Speke’s pectinator with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Bengal fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pacarana with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 9.75 years
- Chacoan peccary with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Pale fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Short-eared dog with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years