It is hard to guess what a Kintampo rope squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kintampo rope squirrel (Funisciurus substriatus) on average weights 186 grams (0.41 lbs).
The Kintampo rope squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Funisciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.3 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Kintampo rope squirrel (Funisciurus substriatus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae.It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Niger, and Togo.Its natural habitat is moist savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Kintampo rope squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Thomas’s flying squirrel bringing 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs) to the scale
- Congo rope squirrel with a weight of 112 grams
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a weight of 201 grams
- Southern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 403 grams
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a weight of 300 grams
- Brazilian squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Yucatan squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- American red squirrel with a weight of 200 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Kintampo rope squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Funisciurus substriatus:
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Mohol bushbaby bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Common degu bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Small sun squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Furtive tuco-tuco bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Brandt’s hedgehog bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat bringing 218 grams to the scale
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher bringing 172 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Kintampo rope squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Kintampo rope squirrel:
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Afghan pika with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Nimba otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert woodrat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-footed treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)