It is hard to guess what a Sanborn’s squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sanborn’s squirrel (Sciurus sanborni) on average weights 136 grams (0.3 lbs).
The Sanborn’s squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.4 cm (0′ 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.
Sanborn’s squirrel (Sciurus sanborni) is or was a little known tree squirrel described in 1944 from the skin and skeleton of a single female specimen collected in Peru in 1941. Subsequently over the proceeding years only a handful of either specimens were collected, or observations were recorded, in the regions of Madre de Dios and northern Puno in Peru, and Pando department in Bolivia (single sighting, Conservation International, 1992). The 2019 IUCN assessment describes it as endemic to Peru. In 2015 this taxon was synonymised with Notosciurus pucheranii ssp. boliviensis. Its habitat is tropical dry broadleaf forests at elevations up to 570 m. It is considered possibly rare and potentially vulnerable to deforestation, but its population trend is not established.
Animals of the same family as a Sanborn’s squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Red squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Yellow ground squirrel with a weight of 779 grams
- Abert’s squirrel with a weight of 623 grams
- Siberian chipmunk with a weight of 94 grams
- Travancore flying squirrel with a weight of 794 grams
- Groundhog bringing 3.88 kilos (8.55 lbs) to the scale
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a weight of 224 grams
- Buller’s chipmunk with a weight of 100 grams
- Jungle palm squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sanborn’s squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus sanborni:
- Sugar glider bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Botta’s pocket gopher bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Savanna gerbil bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Rajah spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Mountain degu bringing 154 grams to the scale
- Kowari bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Western dwarf squirrel bringing 120 grams to the scale