It is hard to guess what a Pallas’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pallas’s squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus) on average weights 283 grams (0.62 lbs).
The Pallas’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Callosciurus). They can live for up to 16.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.1 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Pallas’s squirrels can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Pallas’s squirrel (Callosciurus erythraeus), also known as the red-bellied tree squirrel, is a species of squirrel native to Greater China, India, and Southeast Asia.
Animals of the same family as a Pallas’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a weight of 458 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Arizona gray squirrel with a weight of 647 grams
- Eastern chipmunk with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot bringing 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a weight of 91 grams
- Alpine marmot bringing 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs) to the scale
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Groundhog bringing 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Pallas’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Callosciurus erythraeus:
- Rodrigues flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Speckled spiny tree-rat bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Belding’s ground squirrel bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel bringing 277 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Mechow’s mole-rat bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur bringing 326 grams to the scale
- Sonoran woodrat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- White-tailed olalla rat bringing 274 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pallas’s squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pallas’s squirrel:
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Shrew-faced squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mindoro striped rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Davao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pallas’s squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Pallas’s squirrel:
- Amazonian manatee
- Thumbless bat
- Striped dolphin
- Short-eared possum
- Southern long-nosed bat
- Eastern falanouc
- Monk saki
- Roosevelt’s muntjac
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pallas’s squirrel
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pallas’s squirrel:
- Equatorial saki with an average maximal age of 14.83 years
- Smooth-coated otter with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Impala with an average maximal age of 17.75 years
- Red brocket with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Royal antelope with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Dorcas gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.42 years
- Common duiker with an average maximal age of 14.25 years
- Red giant flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 16 years
- La Plata dolphin with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Red-necked wallaby with an average maximal age of 19 years