It is hard to guess what a Sierra Madre ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sierra Madre ground squirrel (Spermophilus madrensis) on average weights 207 grams (0.46 lbs).
The Sierra Madre ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.2 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Sierra Madre ground squirrels have 4 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.
The Sierra Madre ground squirrel (Callospermophilus madrensis) is a species of rodent in the squirrel family. It is endemic to the Sierra Madre Occidental, in northern Mexico. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland.
Animals of the same family as a Sierra Madre ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 148 grams
- Sanborn’s squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- Black giant squirrel bringing 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) to the scale
- Washington ground squirrel with a weight of 215 grams
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per litter
- Mutable sun squirrel with a weight of 390 grams
- Congo rope squirrel with a weight of 112 grams
- Deppe’s squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 1 babies per litter
- Plantain squirrel with a weight of 210 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sierra Madre ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus madrensis:
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Mountain weasel bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Ceram fruit bat bringing 228 grams to the scale
- Reddish tuco-tuco bringing 173 grams to the scale
- Kintampo rope squirrel bringing 186 grams to the scale
- Eastern rat bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Large vlei rat bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Collared tuco-tuco bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Golden angwantibo bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel bringing 199 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sierra Madre ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sierra Madre ground squirrel:
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Geelvink Bay flying fox with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Temotu flying fox with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Silky anteater with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sierra Madre ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Sierra Madre ground squirrel: