It is hard to guess what a Jungle palm squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Jungle palm squirrel (Funambulus tristriatus) on average weights 135 grams (0.3 lbs).
The Jungle palm squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Funambulus). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45.7 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, Jungle palm 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 jungle palm squirrel, jungle striped squirrel, or Western Ghats squirrel (Funambulus tristriatus) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae endemic to India.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and plantations.This species is tolerant to habitat changes and is common in tea plantations in Western Ghats. This squirrel is confined to forests with tall trees within the West Coast of the Indian Peninsula. This confinement has led the Jungle Palm Squirrel to be a pest to cacao, mangos, grapes, and sapota, which are plants that commonly grow in the type of forest that this squirrel is confined to. The ratio between male and females is not split evenly, males have been reported to have a larger share of the population. Potential factors for the uneven sex ration include differences in “rate of persistence, mortality, dispersal, and predation pressure” (Bhat and Matthew 135).
Animals of the same family as a Jungle palm squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mutable sun squirrel with a weight of 390 grams
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Piute ground squirrel with a weight of 165 grams
- Siberian chipmunk with a weight of 94 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
- Black-capped marmot with 5 babies per litter
- Yellow-bellied marmot bringing 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs) to the scale
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
- Arctic ground squirrel with a weight of 747 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Jungle palm squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Funambulus tristriatus:
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Pygmy marmoset bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Amazonian marsh rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Southern three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- New Guinean rat bringing 133 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Whiskered flying squirrel bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s bushbaby bringing 117 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Jungle palm squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Jungle palm squirrel: