How big does a Xerus erythropus get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Xerus erythropus (Xerus erythropus) reaches an average size of 31.2 cm (1′ 1″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 6 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 602 grams (1.33 lbs). A Xerus erythropus has 3 babies at once. The Xerus erythropus (genus: Xerus) is a member of the family Sciuridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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
We found other animals of the Sciuridae family:
- Central American dwarf squirrel with a weight of 87 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mutable sun squirrel with a weight of 390 grams
- Mexican prairie dog with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Three-striped ground squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican ground squirrel with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Columbian ground squirrel with a size of 29.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-capped marmot with 5 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Xerus erythropus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Xerus erythropus:
- Indonesian mountain weasel with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Spotted linsang with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Golden lion tamarin with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Long-footed potoroo with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Eastern bettong with a size of 33.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Painted ringtail possum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Clara’s echymipera with a size of 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Xerus erythropus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Xerus erythropus:
- Hispid hare
- Crab-eating fox
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Mountain hare
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Savanna path shrew
- Waterhouse’s swamp rat
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- Reddish-gray musk shrew
- Four-toed hedgehog
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Xerus erythropus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Xerus erythropus:
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Spectral bat with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Coruro with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Woodland dormouse with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Plains pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 5 years
- White-bellied duiker with an average maximal age of 5.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Xerus erythropus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Xerus erythropus:
- Seychelles fruit bat bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Siberian weasel bringing 531 grams to the scale
- Golden lion tamarin bringing 593 grams to the scale
- Striped bandicoot bringing 542 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Variegated squirrel bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Malayan weasel bringing 569 grams to the scale
- Brazilian guinea pig bringing 524 grams to the scale
- Marbled polecat bringing 594 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale