It is hard to guess what a Yellow-cheeked chipmunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-cheeked chipmunk (Tamias ochrogenys) on average weights 91 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Yellow-cheeked chipmunk is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Tamias). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.1 cm (0′ 6″).
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 yellow-cheeked chipmunk (Neotamias ochrogenys), also known as the redwood chipmunk, is a species of rodent in the squirrel family, Sciuridae. It is endemic to areas near the coast of northern California in the United States where it inhabits coastal coniferous forest.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-cheeked chipmunk
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Perote ground squirrel with a weight of 140 grams
- Plantain squirrel with a weight of 210 grams
- Allen’s chipmunk with a weight of 89 grams
- Washington ground squirrel with a weight of 215 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a weight of 160 grams
- Long-tailed ground squirrel with a weight of 743 grams
- Tarbagan marmot with 4 babies per litter
- Belding’s ground squirrel with a weight of 272 grams
- Buller’s chipmunk with a weight of 100 grams
- Hopi chipmunk with a weight of 53 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-cheeked chipmunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tamias ochrogenys:
- Peters’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Ochre bush squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Miller’s mastiff bat bringing 98 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Kowari bringing 109 grams to the scale
- Slender Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Shaw’s jird bringing 90 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-cheeked chipmunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow-cheeked chipmunk:
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Heath mouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Buller’s chipmunk with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Durango chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)