What is the maximal age a Xerus erythropus reaches?
An adult Xerus erythropus (Xerus erythropus) usually gets as old as 6 years.
Xerus erythropuss are around 23 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 28 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). As a member of the Sciuridae family (genus: Xerus), their offspring is 3 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 31.2 cm (1′ 1″).
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.
Xerus erythropus (striped ground squirrel) is a species of squirrel native to Africa. It was first described by Geoffroy in 1803, but the original publication may be unavailable, so that the binomial authority is today more often cited as “Desmarest, 1817”. There are six subspecies. It is a moderately large ground squirrel with sandy-brown or dark-brown fur with a white lateral stripe and whitish underparts. Adults live alone or in pairs in a simple burrow with a central nest, foraging, mostly on the ground, for seeds, nuts and roots, and caching excess food under stones. This is a common species with a wide range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Xerus erythropus
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Sciuridae):
- Prevost’s squirrel becoming 5.67 years old
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Groundhog becoming 10 years old
- Jungle palm squirrel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel getting as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Davao squirrel getting as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Epixerus with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Grey-bellied squirrel becoming 9.5 years old
- Slender-tailed squirrel bringing the scale to 427 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Xerus erythropus
With an average age of 6 years, Xerus erythropus are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Bahamian hutia usually reaching 6 years
- Feathertail glider usually reaching 7.17 years
- Least chipmunk usually reaching 6.25 years
- Little free-tailed bat usually reaching 5 years
- Plains pocket gopher usually reaching 7.17 years
- Mongolian gazelle usually reaching 7 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale usually reaching 5 years
- Long-tailed dunnart usually reaching 5 years
- Brown-eared woolly opossum usually reaching 5 years
- Rakali usually reaching 6.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Xerus erythropus
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Neotropical otter
- Crab-eating mongoose
- Raccoon
- Stein’s rat
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
- Swamp musk shrew
- Pyrenean desman
- Royle’s pika
- Collared pika
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
Weighting as much as Xerus erythropus
A fully grown Xerus erythropus reaches around 602 grams (1.33 lbs). So do these animals:
- JunÃn red squirrel with 482 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel with 675 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel with 700 grams
- Collie’s squirrel with 498 grams
- Ashy-headed flying fox with 524 grams
- Yellow-bellied glider with 568 grams
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose with 485 grams
- Golden-headed lion tamarin with 573 grams
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with 489 grams
- Central American squirrel monkey with 714 grams
Animals as big as a Xerus erythropus
Those animals grow as big as a Xerus erythropus:
- Eastern quoll with 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Squirrel-toothed rat with 26.4 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-footed tree-rat with 30.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Red-bellied titi with 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel with 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Dice’s cottontail with 37.4 cm (1′ 3″)
- Pousargues’s mongoose with 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Potto with 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)