It is hard to guess what a Yucatan squirrel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yucatan squirrel (Sciurus yucatanensis) on average weights 225 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Yucatan squirrel is from the family Sciuridae (genus: Sciurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.6 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Yucatan squirrels have 3 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 Yucatan squirrel ( (listen), Sciurus yucatanensis), originally named the Yucatan gray squirrel, also once named the Campeche squirrel, is a tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus found in the Yucatán Peninsula and adjacent areas. It is native to northern Belize, northeastern Guatemala, and southeast Mexico.
Animals of the same family as a Yucatan squirrel
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Kashmir flying squirrel with a weight of 510 grams
- Tufted pygmy squirrel with a weight of 24 grams
- Low’s squirrel with a weight of 85 grams
- Junín red squirrel with a weight of 482 grams
- Texas antelope squirrel with a weight of 113 grams
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a weight of 222 grams
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Thomas’s rope squirrel with a weight of 224 grams
- Basilan flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Particolored flying squirrel with a weight of 255 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yucatan squirrel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sciurus yucatanensis:
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat bringing 236 grams to the scale
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco bringing 202 grams to the scale
- Bolaños woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Particolored flying squirrel bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Gray slender loris bringing 254 grams to the scale
- Philippine forest rat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Long-haired rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Smith’s bush squirrel bringing 222 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yucatan squirrel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yucatan squirrel:
- Long-fingered triok with a size of 23.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Buffy-headed marmoset with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Philippine tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel with a size of 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bryant’s woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yucatan squirrel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Yucatan squirrel: