It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed ground squirrel (Spermophilus undulatus) on average weights 743 grams (1.64 lbs).
The Long-tailed ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). It is usually born with about 10 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.2 cm (2′ 0″). On average, Long-tailed ground squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 long-tailed ground squirrel or Eversmann’s souslik (Urocitellus undulatus) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family Sciuridae. It is found in China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 148 grams
- Striped bush squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a weight of 60 grams
- Congo rope squirrel with a weight of 112 grams
- California chipmunk with a weight of 73 grams
- Deppe’s squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Panamint chipmunk with a weight of 51 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Mentawai squirrel with a weight of 296 grams
- Caucasian squirrel with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus undulatus:
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 665 grams to the scale
- Arizona gray squirrel bringing 647 grams to the scale
- Peters’s squirrel bringing 650 grams to the scale
- Grey-headed flying fox bringing 702 grams to the scale
- Dark spiny tree-rat bringing 627 grams to the scale
- Rakali bringing 626 grams to the scale
- Arctic ground squirrel bringing 747 grams to the scale
- Mountain ground squirrel bringing 625 grams to the scale
- Rock cavy bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Mountain beaver bringing 806 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-tailed ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Long-tailed ground squirrel: