It is hard to guess what a Round-tailed ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Round-tailed ground squirrel (Spermophilus tereticaudus) on average weights 148 grams (0.33 lbs).
The Round-tailed ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.5 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Round-tailed ground squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 6.
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 round-tailed ground squirrel (Xerospermophilus tereticaudus), known as “Ardillón cola redonda” in Spanish, live in the desert of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. They are called “ground squirrels” because they burrow in loose soil, often under mesquite trees and creosote bushes.
Animals of the same family as a Round-tailed ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a weight of 109 grams
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 797 grams
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with a weight of 291 grams
- Samar squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Kinabalu squirrel with a weight of 324 grams
- Indian giant flying squirrel bringing 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs) to the scale
- Hopi chipmunk with a weight of 53 grams
- Mutable sun squirrel with a weight of 390 grams
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Round-tailed ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus tereticaudus:
- Perote ground squirrel bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Harris’s antelope squirrel bringing 127 grams to the scale
- Southern pocket gopher bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Leadbeater’s possum bringing 137 grams to the scale
- Indian palm squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Allen’s cotton rat bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Pale field rat bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Val’s gundi bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Gorongoza gerbil bringing 119 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Round-tailed ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Round-tailed ground squirrel:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern African hedgehog with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ladak pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dwarf flying fox with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large vlei rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater tree mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Round-tailed ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Round-tailed ground squirrel: