It is hard to guess what a Harris’s antelope squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Harris’s antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii) on average weights 127 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Harris’s antelope squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Ammospermophilus). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Harris’s antelope squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 6.
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.
Harris’s antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus harrisii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States, and in Sonora in Mexico. They are adapted to hot weather conditions including a technique called “heat dumping”. They have a wide-ranging diet, including both vegetation, insects, small rodents and carrion.
Animals of the same family as a Harris’s antelope squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Eastern chipmunk with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Philippine pygmy squirrel with a weight of 27 grams
- Least pygmy squirrel with a weight of 21 grams
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a weight of 30 grams
- Allen’s squirrel with a weight of 465 grams
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Black-capped marmot with 5 babies per litter
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a weight of 317 grams
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a weight of 300 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Harris’s antelope squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ammospermophilus harrisii:
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Isarog striped shrew-rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Red spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Laminate vlei rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Perote ground squirrel bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Gorongoza gerbil bringing 118 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Harris’s antelope squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Harris’s antelope squirrel:
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-footed treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Four-toed hedgehog with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Harris’s antelope squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Harris’s antelope squirrel: