It is hard to guess what a Washington ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Washington ground squirrel (Spermophilus washingtoni) on average weights 215 grams (0.47 lbs).
The Washington ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.6 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Washington ground squirrels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 7.
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 Washington ground squirrel (Urocitellus washingtoni) is a squirrel found in the Pacific Northwest, in the states of Washington and Oregon of the Northwestern United States.
Animals of the same family as a Washington ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Mexican prairie dog with a weight of 900 grams
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 500 grams
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed marmot bringing 4.35 kilos (9.59 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s squirrel with a weight of 650 grams
- Tropical ground squirrel with a weight of 155 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel with a weight of 700 grams
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a weight of 201 grams
- Indian palm squirrel with a weight of 136 grams
- Grey-bellied squirrel with a weight of 265 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Washington ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus washingtoni:
- Four-toed elephant shrew bringing 201 grams to the scale
- White-toothed tuco-tuco bringing 244 grams to the scale
- Bolivian squirrel bringing 190 grams to the scale
- Mexican woodrat bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Common degu bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Allen’s cotton rat bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Mendoza tuco-tuco bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Plains pocket gopher bringing 179 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Washington ground squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Washington ground squirrel:
- Red spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Voalavoanala with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pink fairy armadillo with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Australian swamp rat with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser flying fox with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Japanese mole with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Washington ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Washington ground squirrel: