It is hard to guess what a Particolored flying squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Particolored flying squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger) on average weights 255 grams (0.56 lbs).
The Particolored flying squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Hylopetes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.9 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Particolored flying 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 particolored flying squirrel (Hylopetes alboniger) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Particolored flying squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Little ground squirrel with a weight of 174 grams
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Eastern gray squirrel with a weight of 546 grams
- Green bush squirrel with a weight of 100 grams
- Layard’s palm squirrel with 2 babies per litter
- Red-tailed squirrel with a weight of 319 grams
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a weight of 141 grams
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a weight of 61 grams
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per litter
- Pallas’s squirrel with a weight of 283 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Particolored flying squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hylopetes alboniger:
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Montane monkey-faced bat bringing 290 grams to the scale
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
- Samar squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Siberian zokor bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Boyacá spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Ontong Java flying fox bringing 232 grams to the scale
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- O’Connell’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Particolored flying squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Particolored flying squirrel: