It is hard to guess what a Lady Burton’s rope squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lady Burton’s rope squirrel (Funisciurus isabella) on average weights 109 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Lady Burton’s rope squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Funisciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Lady Burton’s rope squirrel (Funisciurus isabella) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Its natural habitats are tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. It is a common species with a wide range, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Lady Burton’s rope squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 797 grams
- Cape ground squirrel with a weight of 572 grams
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Speckled ground squirrel with a weight of 252 grams
- Spotted giant flying squirrel bringing 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs) to the scale
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel with 2 babies per litter
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a weight of 118 grams
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni with a weight of 422 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Lady Burton’s rope squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Funisciurus isabella:
- Woolly giant rat bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Betsileo short-tailed rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Bramble Cay melomys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 111 grams to the scale
- African marsh rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Desert kangaroo rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Southern climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lady Burton’s rope squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lady Burton’s rope squirrel:
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Maxomys baeodon with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Angoni vlei rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)