It is hard to guess what a Utah prairie dog weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens) on average weights 900 grams (1.98 lbs).
The Utah prairie dog is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Cynomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.8 cm (1′ 0″). On average, Utah prairie dogs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 Utah prairie dog (Cynomys parvidens) is the smallest species of prairie dog, a member of the squirrel family of rodents native to the south central steppes of the US state of Utah.
Animals of the same family as a Utah prairie dog
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Rock squirrel with a weight of 715 grams
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-tailed squirrel with a weight of 319 grams
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a weight of 333 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel with a weight of 675 grams
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with a weight of 291 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
- Horse-tailed squirrel with a weight of 358 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog with a weight of 964 grams
- Indian giant squirrel bringing 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Utah prairie dog
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynomys parvidens:
- Conover’s tuco-tuco bringing 860 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Cinereus ringtail possum bringing 977 grams to the scale
- Western woolly lemur bringing 828 grams to the scale
- European hedgehog bringing 789 grams to the scale
- Poncelet’s giant rat with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Red-bellied titi bringing 962 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Lemur-like ringtail possum bringing 997 grams to the scale
- Black-headed night monkey with a weight of 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Utah prairie dog
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Utah prairie dog:
- Goeldi’s marmoset with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Painted ringtail possum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel with a size of 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Striped possum with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- San José brush rabbit with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Collie’s squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Patagonian weasel with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Utah prairie dog
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Utah prairie dog: