It is hard to guess what a Red bush squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red bush squirrel (Paraxerus palliatus) on average weights 365 grams (0.8 lbs).
The Red bush squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). It is usually born with about 15 grams (0.03 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.9 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Red bush squirrels can have babies 1 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.
The red bush squirrel or red-bellied coast squirrel (Paraxerus palliatus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae, which is found in bush and forest along the eastern seaboard of Africa. It is closely related to P. lucifer, P. vexillarius and P. (p.) vincenti.
Animals of the same family as a Red bush squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Sanborn’s squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Ochre bush squirrel with a weight of 104 grams
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a weight of 358 grams
- Rock squirrel with a weight of 715 grams
- Plantain squirrel with a weight of 210 grams
- Forest giant squirrel with a weight of 630 grams
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a weight of 427 grams
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a weight of 241 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red bush squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus palliatus:
- Brown-mantled tamarin bringing 393 grams to the scale
- Black and rufous elephant shrew bringing 423 grams to the scale
- Montane bamboo rat bringing 382 grams to the scale
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Brown-eared woolly opossum bringing 351 grams to the scale
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni bringing 422 grams to the scale
- Golden-mantled tamarin bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Common yellow-toothed cavy bringing 387 grams to the scale
- European hamster bringing 429 grams to the scale
- Zanj sun squirrel bringing 347 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red bush squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red bush squirrel:
- Pied tamarin with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Southern mountain cavy with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-footed treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern Plains woodrat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red bush squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Red bush squirrel: