It is hard to guess what a Slender-tailed squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender-tailed squirrel (Protoxerus aubinnii) on average weights 427 grams (0.94 lbs).
The Slender-tailed squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Protoxerus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.5 cm (0′ 11″).
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-tailed squirrel (Protoxerus aubinnii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Animals of the same family as a Slender-tailed squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Samar squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Peters’s squirrel with a weight of 650 grams
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per litter
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per litter
- Thomas’s flying squirrel bringing 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs) to the scale
- Particolored flying squirrel with a weight of 255 grams
- Jungle palm squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
- Black and red bush squirrel with a weight of 692 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 700 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Slender-tailed squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Protoxerus aubinnii:
- Oaxacan pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Lesser bamboo rat bringing 472 grams to the scale
- San Luis tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Long-fingered triok bringing 370 grams to the scale
- Camas pocket gopher bringing 360 grams to the scale
- Mariana fruit bat bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi flying fox bringing 383 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 398 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Slender-tailed squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Slender-tailed squirrel:
- Abert’s squirrel with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Rock squirrel with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- European hedgehog with a size of 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Rufous elephant shrew with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Weyland ringtail possum with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)