It is hard to guess what a Uinta ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Uinta ground squirrel (Spermophilus armatus) on average weights 307 grams (0.68 lbs).
The Uinta ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.9 cm (0′ 9″). On average, Uinta ground squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 Uinta ground squirrel (Urocitellus armatus), commonly called a Potgut in northern Utah, is a species of rodent native to the western United States.
Animals of the same family as a Uinta ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- American red squirrel with a weight of 200 grams
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per litter
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 500 grams
- Long-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 743 grams
- Santander dwarf squirrel with a weight of 99 grams
- Least chipmunk with a weight of 42 grams
- Forest giant squirrel with a weight of 630 grams
- Uinta chipmunk with a weight of 51 grams
- Mexican fox squirrel with a weight of 697 grams
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a weight of 60 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Uinta ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus armatus:
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Tate’s triok bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Boyacá spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- White-spined Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
- Red squirrel bringing 333 grams to the scale
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed woodrat bringing 286 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Uinta ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Uinta ground squirrel:
- Northern glider with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mindanao treeshrew with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Collie’s squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sulawesi flying fox with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Uinta ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Uinta ground squirrel:
- Long-tailed dwarf hamster
- Buxton’s jird
- Merriam’s shrew
- Northern red-backed vole
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
- Slender shrew
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Asian garden dormouse
- Dusky slender opossum
- Siberian chipmunk
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Uinta ground squirrel
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Uinta ground squirrel:
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Northern birch mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Greater cane rat with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Garden dormouse with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Greater bulldog bat with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Pyrenean desman with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Coruro with an average maximal age of 6 years