It is hard to guess what a Northern Amazon red squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern Amazon red squirrel (Sciurus igniventris) on average weights 700 grams (1.54 lbs).
The Northern Amazon red squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 29.4 cm (1′ 0″).
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 northern Amazon red squirrel, Sciurus igniventris, is a squirrel species from South America. It occurs in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Northern Amazon red squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a weight of 227 grams
- Borneo black-banded squirrel with a weight of 324 grams
- Amazon dwarf squirrel with a weight of 92 grams
- Particolored flying squirrel with a weight of 255 grams
- Javanese flying squirrel with a weight of 156 grams
- Black-striped squirrel with a weight of 209 grams
- Spotted giant flying squirrel bringing 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern Amazon red squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus igniventris:
- Painted ringtail possum bringing 642 grams to the scale
- Big-headed African mole-rat bringing 622 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed prairie dog bringing 797 grams to the scale
- Moonrat bringing 787 grams to the scale
- Maned rat bringing 755 grams to the scale
- Central African oyan bringing 570 grams to the scale
- Grey-headed flying fox bringing 702 grams to the scale
- Atlantic bamboo rat bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Solomons flying fox bringing 661 grams to the scale
- Yellow-throated squirrel bringing 803 grams to the scale