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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Eurasian Red Squirrel

Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758

السنجاب الأحمر أو السنجاب الشائع (الإنجليزية: Red Squirrel) هو أحد الأنواع الثلاثة في جنس السنجاب، هو قارض قارت شجري التنقل، يتواجد في بريطانيا العظمى وإيرلندا انخفضت أعدادها جذريا في السنوات الأخيرة، ويرجع ذلك جزئيا لإدخال السنجاب الرمادي الشرقي من أمريكا الشمالية.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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≈ 1/190th of your weight
Also called
red squirrel, Red Squirrel
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.33 kg
Body length
0.21 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Red Squirrel

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.33 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 0.6 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.21 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
6.03 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
4.42 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
361 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
38 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 38 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0.05 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
33 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Eurasian Red Squirrel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusSciurus
  7. ›speciesSciurus vulgaris
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familySciuridae
  4. tribeSciurini
All 14 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderEuarchontoglires
  11. orderRodents · Rodentia
  12. suborderSciuromorpha
  13. familySciuridae
  14. tribeSciurini
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Closest relative on this site
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel — last shared an ancestor ≈ 10 million years ago.
What it eats
seeds and grain50%
leaves, roots and other plants30%
fruit20%
In other languages
ekorn (nb), 松鼠 (zh), veverka obecná (cs), Eichhoernchen (de), Sciurus vulgaris (es), orava (fi) … and 25 more languages

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