It is hard to guess what a Red squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) on average weights 333 grams (0.73 lbs).
The Red squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.3 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Red squirrels can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus common throughout Eurasia. The red squirrel is an arboreal, primarily herbivorous rodent.In Great Britain, Ireland, and in Italy numbers have decreased drastically in recent years. This decline is associated with the introduction by humans of the eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) from North America. However, the population in Scotland is stabilising due to conservation efforts, awareness and the increasing population of the pine marten, a European predator that selectively controls grey squirrels.
Animals of the same family as a Red squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Southern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 403 grams
- Yucatan squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Tropical ground squirrel with a weight of 155 grams
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a weight of 61 grams
- Eastern gray squirrel with a weight of 546 grams
- Bobak marmot with 6 babies per litter
- Arizona gray squirrel with a weight of 647 grams
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel bringing 1.48 kilos (3.26 lbs) to the scale
- Cliff chipmunk with a weight of 63 grams
- Philippine tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same weight as a Red squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus vulgaris:
- Wied’s marmoset bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Greater stick-nest rat bringing 329 grams to the scale
- Temotu flying fox bringing 274 grams to the scale
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi giant rat bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Bougainville naked-tailed rat bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Little red flying fox bringing 379 grams to the scale
- Kinabalu squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red squirrel:
- Oncilla with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-throated woodrat with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon broad-toothed rat with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a size of 20.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yucatan squirrel with a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Philippine tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Red squirrel:
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse
- European hedgehog
- Silky mouse
- Pousargues’s mongoose
- Culpeo
- Tropical pocket gopher
- Japanese dormouse
- Pallas’s cat
- Bush rat
- Talas tuco-tuco
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red squirrel
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red squirrel:
- Speke’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Javan warty pig with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Royal antelope with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Arabian tahr with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Groundhog with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Bush dog with an average maximal age of 10.33 years