It is hard to guess what a Mexican ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mexican ground squirrel (Spermophilus mexicanus) on average weights 177 grams (0.39 lbs).
The Mexican ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.3 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Mexican ground squirrels have 5 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 ground squirrel (Ictidomys mexicanus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Mexico and the United States. One of its closest relatives is the thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus).
Animals of the same family as a Mexican ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a weight of 207 grams
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a weight of 109 grams
- Yellow-throated squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 797 grams
- Tufted ground squirrel bringing 1.35 kilos (2.98 lbs) to the scale
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Philippine pygmy squirrel with a weight of 27 grams
- Andean squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Low’s squirrel with a weight of 85 grams
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a weight of 222 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus mexicanus:
- Ochre mole-rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Masked white-tailed rat bringing 149 grams to the scale
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Speke’s pectinator bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Mira climbing rat bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Alpine pika bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket gopher bringing 206 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Nectomys squamipes bringing 185 grams to the scale
- Mzab gundi bringing 194 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mexican ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican ground squirrel:
- Long-eared hedgehog with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Samar squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pygmy marmoset with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ochre bush squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Mexican ground squirrel: