It is hard to guess what a Jentink’s flying squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jentink’s flying squirrel (Hylopetes platyurus) on average weights 56 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Jentink’s flying squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Hylopetes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.1 cm (0′ 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.
The Jentink’s flying squirrel (Hylopetes platyurus) is a species of squirrel native to Indonesia and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Jentink’s flying squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a weight of 300 grams
- Variegated squirrel with a weight of 485 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Travancore flying squirrel with a weight of 794 grams
- Palawan montane squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gunnison’s prairie dog with a weight of 798 grams
- Baja California rock squirrel with a weight of 551 grams
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Red squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Jentink’s flying squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hylopetes platyurus:
- Southern multimammate mouse bringing 53 grams to the scale
- European snow vole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed jird bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Cave nectar bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Fringed fruit-eating bat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Large vesper mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys levipes bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Ega long-tongued bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Grayish mouse opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Jentink’s flying squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Jentink’s flying squirrel:
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hispid pocket mouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern pocket gopher with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)