It is hard to guess what a Thomas’s flying squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Thomas’s flying squirrel (Aeromys thomasi) on average weights 1.43 kg (3.15 lbs).
The Thomas’s flying squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Aeromys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34 cm (1′ 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.
Thomas’s flying squirrel (Aeromys thomasi) is a species of rodent in the Sciuridae family. It is one of two species in the genus Aeromys.It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Thomas’s flying squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Peters’s squirrel with a weight of 650 grams
- Mexican ground squirrel with a weight of 177 grams
- Rock squirrel with a weight of 715 grams
- Richmond’s squirrel with a weight of 237 grams
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with a weight of 50 grams
- Xerus erythropus with a weight of 602 grams
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per litter
- Sanborn’s squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- Northern palm squirrel with a weight of 102 grams
- Least chipmunk with a weight of 42 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s flying squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Aeromys thomasi:
- Eastern cottontail with a weight of 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs)
- Greater grison with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a weight of 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs)
- Banded mongoose with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- European pine marten with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
- Northern brushtail possum with a weight of 1.55 kilos (3.42 lbs)
- Tolai hare with a weight of 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
- Sable with a weight of 1.17 kilos (2.58 lbs)
- Steppe polecat with a weight of 1.69 kilos (3.73 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Thomas’s flying squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Thomas’s flying squirrel:
- Golden bamboo lemur with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Woodlark cuscus with a size of 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tufted ground squirrel with a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Lutrine opossum with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Gambian pouched rat with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Water opossum with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Rio Tapajós saki with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Yarkand hare with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)