It is hard to guess what a Red-tailed squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red-tailed squirrel (Sciurus granatensis) on average weights 319 grams (0.7 lbs).
The Red-tailed squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). It is usually born with about 9 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.2 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Red-tailed squirrels can have babies 2 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-tailed squirrel (Notosciurus granatensis) is a largish tree squirrel distributed from southern Central to northern South America.
Animals of the same family as a Red-tailed squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Black-striped squirrel with a weight of 209 grams
- Sanborn’s squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- Tufted ground squirrel bringing 1.35 kilos (2.98 lbs) to the scale
- Columbian ground squirrel with a weight of 471 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Mexican gray squirrel with a weight of 456 grams
- Mexican prairie dog with a weight of 900 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red-tailed squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus granatensis:
- Emilia’s marmoset bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Eastern small-toothed rat bringing 357 grams to the scale
- Four-toed hedgehog bringing 311 grams to the scale
- Southern African hedgehog bringing 337 grams to the scale
- Brown rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Wied’s marmoset bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Long-fingered triok bringing 370 grams to the scale
- Minca spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red-tailed squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red-tailed squirrel:
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black and red bush squirrel with a size of 24.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Painted treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kinabalu squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian pika with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy rabbit with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red-tailed squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Red-tailed squirrel: