It is hard to guess what a Mexican fox squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican fox squirrel (Sciurus nayaritensis) on average weights 697 grams (1.54 lbs).
The Mexican fox squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.3 cm (1′ 0″). Usually, Mexican fox 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 Mexican fox squirrel (Sciurus nayaritensis) is a species of tree squirrel found throughout the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico as far south as Jalisco — and northward into the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona, U.S.This species, or its subspecies, is sometimes called the Nayarit, Apache, or Chiricahua fox squirrel. It has been evaluated as an IUCN Red List Least Concern species.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican fox squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a weight of 74 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Thomas’s flying squirrel bringing 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs) to the scale
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a weight of 61 grams
- Sonoma chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Richmond’s squirrel with a weight of 237 grams
- Green bush squirrel with a weight of 100 grams
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a weight of 43 grams
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni with a weight of 422 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican fox squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus nayaritensis:
- Northern Amazon red squirrel bringing 700 grams to the scale
- Black and red bush squirrel bringing 692 grams to the scale
- Livingstone’s fruit bat bringing 733 grams to the scale
- Indian flying fox bringing 822 grams to the scale
- Black-footed tree-rat bringing 716 grams to the scale
- European hedgehog bringing 789 grams to the scale
- Greater bandicoot rat bringing 583 grams to the scale
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 751 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose bringing 711 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican fox squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican fox squirrel:
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Northern glider with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-shouldered opossum with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Golden lion tamarin with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-bearded flying fox with a size of 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Western white-eared giant rat with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Malayan weasel with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican fox squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Mexican fox squirrel: