It is hard to guess what a Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus) on average weights 665 grams (1.47 lbs).
The Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel is from the family Anomaluridae (genus: Anomalurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.7 cm (1′ 3″). On average, Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrels can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus) is an anomalurid rodent native to Africa. It was named after Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby.
Animals of the same family as a Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
We found other animals of the Anomaluridae family:
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel with a weight of 479 grams
- Pel’s flying squirrel bringing 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) to the scale
- Cameroon scaly-tail with a weight of 200 grams
- Long-eared flying mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel with a weight of 100 grams
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Anomalurus derbianus:
- Livingstone’s fruit bat bringing 733 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed ground squirrel bringing 743 grams to the scale
- Arizona gray squirrel bringing 647 grams to the scale
- Mountain ground squirrel bringing 625 grams to the scale
- Forest giant squirrel bringing 630 grams to the scale
- Solomons flying fox bringing 661 grams to the scale
- Mexican fox squirrel bringing 697 grams to the scale
- Black squirrel monkey bringing 784 grams to the scale
- Baja California rock squirrel bringing 551 grams to the scale
- Central American squirrel monkey bringing 714 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel:
- Epixerus with a size of 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Spotted linsang with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Eastern spotted skunk with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Cape hare with a size of 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Guianan squirrel monkey with a size of 32.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Mountain cottontail with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with a size of 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel: