It is hard to guess what a Mountain ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain ground squirrel (Xerus princeps) on average weights 625 grams (1.38 lbs).
The Mountain ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Xerus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.7 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Mountain ground 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 mountain ground squirrel (Xerus princeps) is a rodent that is native to southwestern Angola, western Namibia, and western South Africa. It is also known as the Kaoko ground squirrel or the Damara ground squirrel.It is the closest relative of the Cape ground squirrel (Latin name Xerus inauris), which is so similar in appearance that the two are difficult to distinguish in the field. Both species have long bushy black and white tails with a white stripe from the shoulder towards the rump. Xerus princeps is slightly larger, on average, than X. inauris, although there is considerable overlap in body size. Differences in skull morphology also distinguish the two species, and the incisors are yellow to orange rather than white as in X. inauris.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Siberian chipmunk with a weight of 94 grams
- Mexican ground squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
- Epixerus with a weight of 559 grams
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Maritime striped squirrel with a weight of 66 grams
- Andean squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Yellow ground squirrel with a weight of 779 grams
- Sonoma chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Least pygmy squirrel with a weight of 21 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Xerus princeps:
- Variable pocket gopher bringing 615 grams to the scale
- Giant naked-tailed rat bringing 745 grams to the scale
- Guianan squirrel monkey bringing 750 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s marmoset bringing 558 grams to the scale
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 665 grams to the scale
- White-lipped tamarin bringing 509 grams to the scale
- Livingstone’s fruit bat bringing 733 grams to the scale
- Lutrine opossum bringing 556 grams to the scale
- Spermophilus relictus bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Central Texas pocket gopher bringing 600 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Mountain ground squirrel: