It is hard to guess what a Thomas’s rope squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Thomas’s rope squirrel (Funisciurus anerythrus) on average weights 224 grams (0.49 lbs).
The Thomas’s rope squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Funisciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.4 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Thomas’s rope squirrels have 1 babies per litter.
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 rope squirrel or redless tree squirrel (Funisciurus anerythrus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is a common species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Thomas’s rope squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Andean squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Small sun squirrel with a weight of 174 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a weight of 227 grams
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel with a weight of 324 grams
- Philippine tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with a weight of 34 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Thomas’s rope squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Funisciurus anerythrus:
- Japanese squirrel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- Holochilus chacarius bringing 204 grams to the scale
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat bringing 239 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat bringing 218 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Chinese zokor bringing 257 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Thomas’s rope 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 rope squirrel:
- Ornate flying fox with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Amazon weasel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Admiralty flying fox with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plains pocket gopher with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Thomas’s rope squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Thomas’s rope squirrel: