It is hard to guess what a Wyoming ground squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wyoming ground squirrel (Spermophilus elegans) on average weights 325 grams (0.72 lbs).
The Wyoming ground squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Spermophilus). It is usually born with about 5 grams (0.01 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 29.6 cm (1′ 0″). Usually, Wyoming ground 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 Wyoming ground squirrel (Urocitellus elegans) is a species of rodents in the family Sciuridae.It is endemic to the Northwestern United States.
Animals of the same family as a Wyoming ground squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Vancouver Island marmot bringing 5.24 kilos (11.55 lbs) to the scale
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with a weight of 36 grams
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a weight of 277 grams
- Mountain ground squirrel with a weight of 625 grams
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per litter
- Long-eared chipmunk with a weight of 83 grams
- Lunda rope squirrel with a weight of 135 grams
- Columbian ground squirrel with a weight of 471 grams
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a weight of 300 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Wyoming ground squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spermophilus elegans:
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- O’Connell’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- White-headed marmoset bringing 342 grams to the scale
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Steere’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat bringing 304 grams to the scale
- Uinta ground squirrel bringing 307 grams to the scale
- Eastern small-toothed rat bringing 357 grams to the scale
- White-winged flying fox bringing 343 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Wyoming ground squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Wyoming ground squirrel: