It is hard to guess what a Unstriped ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Unstriped ground squirrel (Xerus rutilus) on average weights 317 grams (0.7 lbs).
The Unstriped ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Xerus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.2 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Unstriped ground 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 unstriped ground squirrel (Xerus rutilus) is a species of rodent (order Rodentia) in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland.
Animals of the same family as a Unstriped ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Yucatan squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel bringing 1.48 kilos (3.26 lbs) to the scale
- Samar squirrel with a weight of 225 grams
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- California ground squirrel with a weight of 598 grams
- Mexican prairie dog with a weight of 900 grams
- Palawan flying squirrel with a size of 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a weight of 458 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel with a weight of 70 grams
- Brooke’s squirrel with a weight of 114 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Unstriped ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Xerus rutilus:
- Townsend’s pocket gopher bringing 263 grams to the scale
- Camas pocket gopher bringing 360 grams to the scale
- Brown rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 267 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Guyenne spiny rat bringing 314 grams to the scale
- Allen’s woodrat bringing 368 grams to the scale
- Buffy-headed marmoset bringing 374 grams to the scale
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Pygmy spotted skunk bringing 365 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Unstriped ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Unstriped ground squirrel:
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Highland tuco-tuco with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ceram fruit bat with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky flying squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray tree rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dinagat gymnure with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Unstriped ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Unstriped ground squirrel: