It is hard to guess what a Smith’s bush squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Smith’s bush squirrel (Paraxerus cepapi) on average weights 222 grams (0.49 lbs).
The Smith’s bush squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Paraxerus). It is usually born with about 12 grams (0.03 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.2 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Smith’s bush squirrels can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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.
Smith’s bush squirrel (Paraxerus cepapi), also known as the yellow-footed squirrel or tree squirrel, is an African bush squirrel which is native to woodlands of the southern Afrotropics.
Animals of the same family as a Smith’s bush squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel with 7 babies per litter
- Pallas’s squirrel with a weight of 283 grams
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a weight of 175 grams
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a weight of 34 grams
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- American red squirrel with a weight of 200 grams
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a weight of 141 grams
- Davao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk with a weight of 74 grams
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a weight of 130 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Smith’s bush squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraxerus cepapi:
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Rodrigues flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Lesser bandicoot rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Three-striped dasyure bringing 223 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s pocket gopher bringing 263 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Smith’s bush squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Smith’s bush squirrel:
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cerradomys subflavus with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Vinogradov’s jird with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Brazilian squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Smith’s bush squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Smith’s bush squirrel: