It is hard to guess what a Richmond’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Richmond’s squirrel (Sciurus richmondi) on average weights 237 grams (0.52 lbs).
The Richmond’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.4 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Richmond’s squirrels have 2 babies per litter.
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.
Richmond’s squirrel (Sciurus richmondi) is a poorly known tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus endemic to Nicaragua, which is likely a synonym of the Red-tailed squirrel (Notosciurus granatensis). It is locally known as the ardilla del rama.
Animals of the same family as a Richmond’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a weight of 43 grams
- Colorado chipmunk with a weight of 57 grams
- Utah prairie dog with a weight of 900 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Richmond’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus richmondi:
- Tawny tuco-tuco bringing 280 grams to the scale
- Tamaulipan woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Magellanic tuco-tuco bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel bringing 277 grams to the scale
- Steere’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- White-throated woodrat bringing 208 grams to the scale
- Japanese squirrel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Lesser bandicoot rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Temotu flying fox bringing 274 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Richmond’s squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Richmond’s squirrel:
- Daurian hedgehog with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Malayan field rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Alpine pika with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Richmond’s squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Richmond’s squirrel: