It is hard to guess what a Siskiyou chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Siskiyou chipmunk (Tamias siskiyou) on average weights 75 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Siskiyou chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 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 Siskiyou chipmunk (Neotamias siskiyou) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to northern California and central Oregon in the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Siskiyou chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a weight of 118 grams
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a weight of 45 grams
- Rock squirrel with a weight of 715 grams
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Andean squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Arizona gray squirrel with a weight of 647 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Hoary marmot bringing 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs) to the scale
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a weight of 201 grams
- Cape ground squirrel with a weight of 572 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Siskiyou chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias siskiyou:
- Big deer mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Golden Oldfield mouse bringing 88 grams to the scale
- Acacia rat bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Robinson’s mouse opossum bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Buff-bellied climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Cape York melomys bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Argentine hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Paramo Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Siskiyou chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Siskiyou chipmunk:
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stein’s rat with a size of 17.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Zempoaltépec vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Greater big-footed mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Caledonia flying fox with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)