What is the maximal age a Prevost’s squirrel reaches?
An adult Prevost’s squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) usually gets as old as 5.67 years.
Prevost’s squirrels are around 46 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 16 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). As a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Callosciurus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
Prevost’s squirrel or Asian tri-colored squirrel (Callosciurus prevostii) is a colourful species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is found in forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo and nearby smaller islands, with an introduced population in northern Sulawesi. Although the Prevost’s squirrel is declining is some regions because of habitat loss and hunting, the species is not considered threatened since it generally remains common and widespread. It can live in somewhat disturbed habitats and often visits plantations or gardens. It mostly feeds on plant material, especially fruits, but also takes insects.
Animals of the same family as a Prevost’s squirrel
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Sciuridae):
- Congo rope squirrel becoming 9.5 years old
- Cape ground squirrel becoming 13 years old
- Southern flying squirrel becoming 12 years old
- Central American dwarf squirrel bringing the scale to 87 grams
- Unstriped ground squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hoary marmot with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel bringing the scale to 250 grams
- Daurian ground squirrel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Tropical ground squirrel bringing the scale to 155 grams
- Townsend’s chipmunk becoming 7 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Prevost’s squirrel
With an average age of 5.67 years, Prevost’s squirrel are in good companionship of the following animals:
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel usually reaching 5.5 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 6 years
- Gansu pika usually reaching 5 years
- Virginia opossum usually reaching 5 years
- Spectral bat usually reaching 6.5 years
- Pyrenean desman usually reaching 5 years
- African striped weasel usually reaching 5.17 years
- Eastern mole usually reaching 6.17 years
- Plains rat usually reaching 5.58 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse usually reaching 4.58 years
Animals with the same number of babies Prevost’s squirrel
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Sulawesi rousette
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
- Buru babirusa
- Sumatran rhinoceros
- Red goral
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Japanese macaque
- African sheath-tailed bat
- Goldman’s woodrat
Weighting as much as Prevost’s squirrel
A fully grown Prevost’s squirrel reaches around 400 grams (0.88 lbs). So do these animals:
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni with 422 grams
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy with 450 grams
- Striped possum with 413 grams
- Mountain giant Sunda rat with 419 grams
- Weyland ringtail possum with 456 grams
- Bolivian tuco-tuco with 462 grams
- Brown four-eyed opossum with 365 grams
- Greater stick-nest rat with 329 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum with 426 grams
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat with 439 grams
Animals as big as a Prevost’s squirrel
Those animals grow as big as a Prevost’s squirrel:
- Smoky pocket gopher with 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Deppe’s squirrel with 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Great flying fox with 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Lesser stick-nest rat with 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pallas’s squirrel with 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Long-eared hedgehog with 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Variegated squirrel with 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hugh’s hedgehog with 20 cm (0′ 8″)