It is hard to guess what a Peters’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Peters’s squirrel (Sciurus oculatus) on average weights 650 grams (1.43 lbs).
The Peters’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.8 cm (0′ 11″).
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.
Peters’s squirrel (Sciurus oculatus) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to Mexico. It was first described by the German naturalist and explorer Wilhelm Peters in 1863. Three subspecies are recognised. It is a common species, and the IUCN has rated its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Peters’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a weight of 34 grams
- Three-striped ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel with a weight of 104 grams
- Arctic ground squirrel with a weight of 747 grams
- Yellow ground squirrel with a weight of 779 grams
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with a weight of 325 grams
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a weight of 241 grams
- Jungle palm squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Peters’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus oculatus:
- Pemba flying fox bringing 541 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed ground squirrel bringing 743 grams to the scale
- Black-footed tree-rat bringing 716 grams to the scale
- Bulmer’s fruit bat bringing 621 grams to the scale
- White-faced spiny tree-rat bringing 610 grams to the scale
- White-footed sportive lemur bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
- Atlantic bamboo rat bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Bismarck giant rat bringing 613 grams to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose bringing 711 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Peters’s squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Peters’s squirrel:
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Tome’s spiny rat with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pied tamarin with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Water opossum with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Gray-bellied night monkey with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Michoacan pocket gopher with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red slender loris with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Allen’s squirrel with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)