It is hard to guess what a Tropical ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tropical ground squirrel (Spermophilus adocetus) on average weights 155 grams (0.34 lbs).
The Tropical ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.8 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 tropical ground squirrel (Notocitellus adocetus) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. At one time the species was originally described as Spermophilus adocetus, but the genus Spermophilus was revised and subdivided in 2009 and it was placed in the genus Notocitellus. It is endemic to arid upland areas and deciduous woodland in Mexico. It is locally referred to as Cuinique.
Animals of the same family as a Tropical ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a weight of 118 grams
- Black and red bush squirrel with a weight of 692 grams
- Black giant squirrel bringing 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) to the scale
- Uinta ground squirrel with a weight of 307 grams
- Sonoma chipmunk with a weight of 75 grams
- Red and white giant flying squirrel bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a weight of 60 grams
- Arizona gray squirrel with a weight of 647 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tropical ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus adocetus:
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Buller’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Northern flying squirrel bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Peters’s climbing rat bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Tete veld aethomys bringing 133 grams to the scale
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Southern pocket gopher bringing 126 grams to the scale
- Lowland streaked tenrec bringing 129 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tropical ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tropical ground squirrel:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)