It is hard to guess what a San Joaquin antelope squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult San Joaquin antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus nelsoni) on average weights 160 grams (0.35 lbs).
The San Joaquin antelope squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Ammospermophilus). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 5.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.8 cm (0′ 7″). On average, San Joaquin antelope squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 8.
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 San Joaquin antelope squirrel or Nelson’s antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus nelsoni), is a species of antelope squirrel, in the San Joaquin Valley of the U.S. state of California.
Animals of the same family as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Columbian ground squirrel with a weight of 471 grams
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel bringing 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs) to the scale
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- California chipmunk with a weight of 73 grams
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Pallas’s squirrel with a weight of 283 grams
- Spotted ground squirrel with a weight of 107 grams
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Japanese squirrel with a weight of 264 grams
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 500 grams
Animals with the same weight as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ammospermophilus nelsoni:
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Pale field rat bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Earless water rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Allen’s cotton rat bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Palawan treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Northern flying squirrel bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Lesser mole-rat bringing 188 grams to the scale
- Common treeshrew bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as San Joaquin antelope squirrel:
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Altai mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Luzon short-nosed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Silky anteater with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Edible dormouse with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel:
- Tundra shrew
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
- Cinnamon antechinus
- Southern long-nosed armadillo
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
- Yellow-footed antechinus
- White-footed dunnart
- African wild dog
- Chestnut dunnart
Animals with the same life expectancy as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a San Joaquin antelope squirrel:
- Rakali with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- House mouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Bunny rat with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 6.33 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Central African oyan with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Gansu pika with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Plains rat with an average maximal age of 5.58 years