It is hard to guess what a Maritime striped squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Maritime striped squirrel (Tamiops maritimus) on average weights 66 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Maritime striped squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamiops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Maritime striped squirrels have 2 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 maritime striped squirrel or eastern striped squirrel (Tamiops maritimus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in southern and eastern China (including Hainan), Taiwan, and Laos and Vietnam east of Mekong. This species is diurnal, highly arboreal and feeds on fruits, seeds, insects; in addition its diet includes nectar of ginger (Alpinia kwangsiensis).
Animals of the same family as a Maritime striped squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Southern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 403 grams
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mexican prairie dog with a weight of 900 grams
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a weight of 74 grams
- Red squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Yellow-throated squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
- Slender squirrel with a weight of 74 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Black-striped squirrel with a weight of 209 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Maritime striped squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamiops maritimus:
- Oecomys paricola bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Zambian mole-rat bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Oecomys superans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Pale-faced bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Glacier rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s chipmunk bringing 74 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Maritime striped squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Maritime striped squirrel:
- Mount Apo forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- California mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Vinogradov’s jird with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Montane vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Maritime striped squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Maritime striped squirrel: