It is hard to guess what a Kinabalu squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kinabalu squirrel (Callosciurus baluensis) on average weights 324 grams (0.71 lbs).
The Kinabalu squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Callosciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.3 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Kinabalu squirrels have 3 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 Kinabalu squirrel (Callosciurus baluensis) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to highland forest in East Malaysia. Its name is a reference to Mount Kinabalu, though it is not restricted to this mountain. Its tail and upperparts are grizzled blackish, the underparts are reddish-orange, and the flanks have a narrow buff stripe with a broader black stripe below.
Animals of the same family as a Kinabalu squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Long-tailed marmot bringing 4.35 kilos (9.59 lbs) to the scale
- Mexican gray squirrel with a weight of 456 grams
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per litter
- Variegated squirrel with a weight of 485 grams
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Spotted giant flying squirrel bringing 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs) to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with a weight of 291 grams
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with a weight of 104 grams
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a weight of 224 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Kinabalu squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Callosciurus baluensis:
- Big-eared flying fox bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Derby’s woolly opossum bringing 328 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 278 grams to the scale
- Chiapan climbing rat bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Napo spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Savile’s bandicoot rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Kinabalu squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Kinabalu squirrel:
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- New Guinea waterside rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- San MartÃn Island woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plateau pika with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater stick-nest rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brooke’s squirrel with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Kinabalu squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Kinabalu squirrel: