It is hard to guess what a Himalayan striped squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii) on average weights 45 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Himalayan striped squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamiops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.4 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Himalayan striped 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 Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops mcclellandii), also known as western striped squirrel, or Burmese striped squirrel, is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It lives in a variety of forest from tropical to subtropical in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. This species is diurnal, arboreal and feeds on fruits, vegetable matter, and insects. It often seen in small groups and uses tree holes for shelter.The rapid uplift of the Himalayan Mountains is believed to have caused the diversification of the three main Tamiops Lineages. Multiple divergences from 5.8 to 1.7 mya likely led to the formation of modern Tamiops species.
Animals of the same family as a Himalayan striped squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 277 grams
- Uinta ground squirrel with a weight of 307 grams
- Japanese squirrel with a weight of 264 grams
- Red and white giant flying squirrel bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- European ground squirrel with a weight of 396 grams
- Vancouver Island marmot bringing 5.24 kilos (11.55 lbs) to the scale
- Slender squirrel with a weight of 74 grams
- Xerus erythropus with a weight of 602 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel with a weight of 675 grams
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan striped squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamiops mcclellandii:
- Swamp antechinus bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s water mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys laticeps bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Montane wood mouse bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Crested-tailed deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Royle’s mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Himalayan striped squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Himalayan striped squirrel:
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alpine chipmunk with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese shrew mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Himalayan striped squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Himalayan striped squirrel: