It is hard to guess what a Southern Amazon red squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern Amazon red squirrel (Sciurus spadiceus) on average weights 403 grams (0.89 lbs).
The Southern Amazon red squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.4 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 southern Amazon red squirrel (Sciurus spadiceus), is a squirrel species from South America where it inhabits forests in much of north-western South America east of the Andes. Three subspecies are currently recognised. It is a dark red colour, or a dark brown grizzled with ochre, has whitish underparts and grows to a total length of 48 to 63 cm (19 to 25 in), including a very long tail. It spends much of its time on the ground in the undergrowth and feeds largely on nuts. Little is known of its breeding habits, but it is a sociable species, several individuals often feeding together in one tree. This squirrel faces no particular threats, has a wide range and is relatively common, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists it as a “least-concern species”.
Animals of the same family as a Southern Amazon red squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel with 2 babies per litter
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel with a weight of 199 grams
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a weight of 458 grams
- Pallas’s squirrel with a weight of 283 grams
- Sonoma chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Speckled ground squirrel with a weight of 252 grams
- Slender-tailed squirrel with a weight of 427 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 964 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern Amazon red squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus spadiceus:
- Northern quoll bringing 477 grams to the scale
- Long-eared hedgehog bringing 332 grams to the scale
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Common yellow-toothed cavy bringing 387 grams to the scale
- White-headed marmoset bringing 342 grams to the scale
- Santarem marmoset bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Wyoming ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Golden-mantled tamarin bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Geelvink Bay flying fox bringing 351 grams to the scale
- Pygmy rabbit bringing 437 grams to the scale