It is hard to guess what a Variegated squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) on average weights 485 grams (1.07 lbs).
The Variegated squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.3 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Variegated squirrels have 5 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 variegated squirrel (Sciurus variegatoides) is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, southern Mexico, Nicaragua, and Panama. Fifteen subspecies are recognised. It is a common squirrel and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated it a “least-concern species”. Variegated squirrels kept as pets in Germany have been implicated in the transmission of a bornavirus to humans from which three people have died.
Animals of the same family as a Variegated squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Amazon dwarf squirrel with a weight of 92 grams
- Rock squirrel with a weight of 715 grams
- Santander dwarf squirrel with a weight of 99 grams
- Philippine tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mohave ground squirrel with a weight of 213 grams
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hopi chipmunk with a weight of 53 grams
- Bobak marmot with 6 babies per litter
- Indochinese flying squirrel with a weight of 227 grams
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Variegated squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus variegatoides:
- Slender mongoose bringing 530 grams to the scale
- Epixerus bringing 559 grams to the scale
- Gray four-eyed opossum bringing 426 grams to the scale
- Emperor tamarin bringing 409 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Lutrine opossum bringing 556 grams to the scale
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat bringing 445 grams to the scale
- Malayan weasel bringing 569 grams to the scale
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat bringing 502 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Variegated squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Variegated squirrel:
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black and red bush squirrel with a size of 24.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Epixerus with a size of 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Javan mongoose with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Eastern woolly lemur with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Chinese red pika with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Variegated squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Variegated squirrel: