It is hard to guess what a Townsend’s ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Townsend’s ground squirrel (Spermophilus townsendii) on average weights 207 grams (0.46 lbs).
The Townsend’s ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). It is usually born with about 3 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.3 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Townsend’s ground squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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.
Townsend’s ground squirrel (Urocitellus townsendii) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in high desert shrublands in several areas of the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Townsend’s ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a weight of 60 grams
- Small sun squirrel with a weight of 174 grams
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 797 grams
- Black flying squirrel bringing 1.19 kilos (2.62 lbs) to the scale
- Washington ground squirrel with a weight of 215 grams
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a weight of 317 grams
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Red bush squirrel with a weight of 365 grams
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a weight of 243 grams
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Townsend’s ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus townsendii:
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Spectral tarsier bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Four-toed elephant shrew bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Brush-tailed phascogale bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Strong tuco-tuco bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat bringing 172 grams to the scale
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Colombian weasel bringing 211 grams to the scale
- Lesser bandicoot rat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Tamaulipan woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Townsend’s ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Townsend’s ground squirrel:
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ontong Java flying fox with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Japanese mole with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large New Guinea spiny rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Townsend’s ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Townsend’s ground squirrel: