It is hard to guess what a Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Perny’s long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi) on average weights 199 grams (0.44 lbs).
The Perny’s long-nosed squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Dremomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.3 cm (0′ 8″).
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.
Perny’s long-nosed squirrel (Dremomys pernyi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Northeast India, southern and central China, northern Myanmar, northern Vietnam, and Taiwan.
Animals of the same family as a Perny’s long-nosed squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Whiskered flying squirrel with a weight of 108 grams
- Allen’s squirrel with a weight of 465 grams
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Perote ground squirrel with a weight of 140 grams
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a weight of 56 grams
- Sanborn’s squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- Andean squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Speckled ground squirrel with a weight of 252 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Congo rope squirrel with a weight of 112 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Perny’s long-nosed squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dremomys pernyi:
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Tamaulipan woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Speke’s pectinator bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Arizona cotton rat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Dusky-footed woodrat bringing 219 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Small sun squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Striped bush squirrel bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Cape York rat bringing 200 grams to the scale