It is hard to guess what a Vordermann’s flying squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Vordermann’s flying squirrel (Petinomys vordermanni) on average weights 36 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Vordermann’s flying squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Petinomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.8 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Vordermann’s flying squirrels have 2 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.
Vordermann’s flying squirrel (Petinomys vordermanni) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Myanmar.
Animals of the same family as a Vordermann’s flying squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Congo rope squirrel with a weight of 112 grams
- Pallas’s squirrel with a weight of 283 grams
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a weight of 141 grams
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per litter
- Woolly flying squirrel with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Asia Minor ground squirrel with 5 babies per litter
- Northern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed marmot bringing 4.35 kilos (9.59 lbs) to the scale
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel with 3 babies per litter
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a weight of 56 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Vordermann’s flying squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Petinomys vordermanni:
- Red-cheeked dunnart bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Woolly horseshoe bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Halmahera blossom bat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Gray-tailed vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Silent grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Roraima mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Tyler’s mouse opossum bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Vordermann’s flying squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Vordermann’s flying squirrel:
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gansu pika with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Congo rope squirrel with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Montane vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiga vole with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Vordermann’s flying squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Vordermann’s flying squirrel: