It is hard to guess what a Whiskered flying squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Whiskered flying squirrel (Petinomys genibarbis) on average weights 108 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Whiskered flying squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Petinomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.7 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Whiskered flying 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 whiskered flying squirrel (Petinomys genibarbis) is a species of flying squirrel. It is found in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Whiskered flying squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow-throated squirrel with a weight of 803 grams
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel with a weight of 199 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with a weight of 498 grams
- Smoky flying squirrel with a weight of 251 grams
- Travancore flying squirrel with a weight of 794 grams
- Congo rope squirrel with a weight of 112 grams
- Peters’s squirrel with a weight of 650 grams
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- Southern flying squirrel with a weight of 72 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Whiskered flying squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Petinomys genibarbis:
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 96 grams to the scale
- Tiny tuco-tuco bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Persian jird bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Fat sand rat bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Water vole (North America) bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Kowari bringing 109 grams to the scale
- Allen’s chipmunk bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed tree rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Whiskered flying squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Whiskered flying squirrel:
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Halmahera naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mountain treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Whiskered flying squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Whiskered flying squirrel: