It is hard to guess what a Ochre bush squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ochre bush squirrel (Paraxerus ochraceus) on average weights 104 grams (0.23 lbs).
The Ochre bush squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Ochre bush 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 ochre bush squirrel (Paraxerus ochraceus) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae found in Kenya, Somalia, and Tanzania. Its natural habitat is dry savanna.
Animals of the same family as a Ochre bush squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Andean squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Washington ground squirrel with a weight of 215 grams
- Brooke’s squirrel with a weight of 114 grams
- Palawan montane squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Grizzled giant squirrel bringing 1.33 kilos (2.93 lbs) to the scale
- Vancouver Island marmot bringing 5.24 kilos (11.55 lbs) to the scale
- Mexican ground squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bobak marmot with 6 babies per litter
- Zanj sun squirrel with a weight of 347 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ochre bush squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus ochraceus:
- Bocage’s mole-rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Taiga vole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Santander dwarf squirrel bringing 99 grams to the scale
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Romanian hamster bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Southern African vlei rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed opossum bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Tweedy’s crab-eating rat bringing 119 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ochre bush squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ochre bush squirrel:
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Insular flying fox with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Luzon striped rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Val’s gundi with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large tree mouse with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Green bush squirrel with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gorongoza gerbil with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ochre bush squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Ochre bush squirrel: