It is hard to guess what a Horse-tailed squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Horse-tailed squirrel (Sundasciurus hippurus) on average weights 358 grams (0.79 lbs).
The Horse-tailed squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sundasciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.8 cm (0′ 9″).
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 horse-tailed squirrel (Sundasciurus hippurus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found throughout the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, as well as the southern half of the Malay Peninsula, which includes the entire nations of Brunei and Malaysia, as well as some areas of Indonesia and Thailand. There was a mention of this squirrel being found in Vietnam in 1831 (I. Geoffroy, 1831), but subsequent descriptions of this squirrel’s range have not included that nation.
Animals of the same family as a Horse-tailed squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Least chipmunk with a weight of 42 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Whiskered flying squirrel with a weight of 108 grams
- Amazon dwarf squirrel with a weight of 92 grams
- Colorado chipmunk with a weight of 57 grams
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Alpine chipmunk with a weight of 36 grams
- Sonoma chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Yucatan squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Horse-tailed squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sundasciurus hippurus:
- Camas pocket gopher bringing 360 grams to the scale
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Azara’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Common marmoset bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Desert hedgehog bringing 396 grams to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose bringing 362 grams to the scale
- Little red flying fox bringing 379 grams to the scale
- Four-toed hedgehog bringing 311 grams to the scale
- Wied’s marmoset bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Mindanao treeshrew bringing 301 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Horse-tailed squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Horse-tailed squirrel:
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Greater stick-nest rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kintampo rope squirrel with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Eastern small-toothed rat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pied tamarin with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Lowland ringtail possum with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Painted ringtail possum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)