It is hard to guess what a Tufted pygmy squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tufted pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus whiteheadi) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Tufted pygmy squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Exilisciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Tufted pygmy 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.
The tufted pygmy squirrel (Exilisciurus whiteheadi) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is endemic to highland forest in Borneo. The common name of this tiny squirrel refers to its distinctive ear-tufts.Its diet consists mainly of the lichens and mosses which cover the trees it inhabits.
Animals of the same family as a Tufted pygmy squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a weight of 130 grams
- Durango chipmunk with a weight of 85 grams
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a weight of 118 grams
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a weight of 91 grams
- Baja California rock squirrel with a weight of 551 grams
- Southern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 403 grams
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a weight of 207 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tufted pygmy squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Exilisciurus whiteheadi:
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Aztec fruit-eating bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Peters’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tufted pygmy squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tufted pygmy squirrel:
- San Joaquin pocket mouse with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tufted pygmy squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Tufted pygmy squirrel: