It is hard to guess what a Neotropical pygmy squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Neotropical pygmy squirrel (Sciurillus pusillus) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Neotropical pygmy squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurillus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Neotropical pygmy squirrels have 1 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 Neotropical pygmy squirrel (Sciurillus pusillus) is a South American species of tree squirrel, being the only living species in the genus Sciurillus and the subfamily Sciurillinae. Genetic analysis has shown it to be the sister group to all other squirrels.
Animals of the same family as a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a weight of 56 grams
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per litter
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with a weight of 50 grams
- Daurian ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a weight of 458 grams
- Cape ground squirrel with a weight of 572 grams
- Samar squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- California chipmunk with a weight of 73 grams
- Washington ground squirrel with a weight of 215 grams
- Tropical ground squirrel with a weight of 155 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurillus pusillus:
- Hooper’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Stirton’s deer mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Cape golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Blackish deer mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Hispid hocicudo bringing 36 grams to the scale
- White-striped free-tailed bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Spotted bolo mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Brazilian slender opossum bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Neotropical pygmy squirrel:
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Margarita Island kangaroo rat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arianus’s rat with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- California mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-footed mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern water rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Neotropical pygmy squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Neotropical pygmy squirrel: