It is hard to guess what a Javanese flying squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Javanese flying squirrel (Iomys horsfieldii) on average weights 156 grams (0.34 lbs).
The Javanese flying squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Iomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Javanese flying 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 Javanese flying squirrel (Iomys horsfieldii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
Animals of the same family as a Javanese flying squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Variegated squirrel with a weight of 485 grams
- Indian giant squirrel bringing 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) to the scale
- Guayaquil squirrel with a weight of 433 grams
- Indian giant flying squirrel bringing 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs) to the scale
- Wyoming ground squirrel with a weight of 325 grams
- Gray-footed chipmunk with a weight of 70 grams
- Piute ground squirrel with a weight of 165 grams
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a weight of 74 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Mexican gray squirrel with a weight of 456 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Javanese flying squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Iomys horsfieldii:
- Short-tailed bandicoot rat bringing 178 grams to the scale
- Ricefield rat bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Baird’s pocket gopher bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Bolivian chinchilla rat bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Small sun squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Javanese flying squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Javanese flying squirrel:
- Malayan field rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Western water rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Javanese flying squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Javanese flying squirrel: