It is hard to guess what a Himalayan striped squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Himalayan striped squirrel (Tamiops macclellandi) 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:
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel with 7 babies per litter
- Gambian sun squirrel with a weight of 248 grams
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with a weight of 104 grams
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a weight of 56 grams
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a weight of 317 grams
- Black giant squirrel bringing 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) to the scale
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Guayaquil squirrel with a weight of 433 grams
- Daurian 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 macclellandi:
- Winkelmann’s mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Demonic tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Black-bellied fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- South African pouched mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Woolley’s false antechinus bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Edith’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Fawn antechinus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Hatt’s vesper rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Mountain pygmy possum bringing 44 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:
- Temminck’s striped mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden mouse with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 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: