It is hard to guess what a Small sun squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small sun squirrel (Heliosciurus punctatus) on average weights 174 grams (0.38 lbs).
The Small sun squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Heliosciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19 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.
The small sun squirrel (Heliosciurus punctatus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Ivory Coast, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and possibly Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Animals of the same family as a Small sun squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Black and red bush squirrel with a weight of 692 grams
- Low’s squirrel with a weight of 85 grams
- Maritime striped squirrel with a weight of 66 grams
- Mutable sun squirrel with a weight of 390 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 964 grams
- Variegated squirrel with a weight of 485 grams
- Yellow-throated squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Northern palm squirrel with a weight of 102 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Small sun squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Heliosciurus punctatus:
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat bringing 146 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Maxomys baeodon bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Nicobar treeshrew bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Plateau pika bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Large New Guinea spiny rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Painted treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Small sun squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Small sun squirrel:
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Small flying fox with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ochre bush squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Temotu flying fox with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Golden hamster with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)