It is hard to guess what a Slender squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis) on average weights 74 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Slender squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sundasciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.8 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Slender squirrels have 3 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 slender squirrel (Sundasciurus tenuis) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is arboreal and found in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand. The body is brown on the upper parts and light grey on the underparts. The body measures about 13–16 cm, with a slightly shorter slender tail. It feeds on soft bark, fruits and insects.
Animals of the same family as a Slender squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Travancore flying squirrel with a weight of 794 grams
- Sonoma chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Striped bush squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a weight of 427 grams
- Indian palm squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- Mohave ground squirrel with a weight of 213 grams
- Layard’s palm squirrel with 2 babies per litter
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black flying squirrel bringing 1.19 kilos (2.62 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Slender squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sundasciurus tenuis:
- Bolivian big-eared mouse bringing 71 grams to the scale
- North American brown lemming bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Kalinowski’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Pohle’s fruit bat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Arianus’s rat bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Fringed fruit-eating bat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Abyssinian grass rat bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Slender squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Slender squirrel:
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Four-toed hedgehog with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert kangaroo rat with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gilliard’s flying fox with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Low’s squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-haired rat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Roman mole with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Slender squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Slender squirrel: