🐿️Eurasian Red Squirrel
For alternative betydninger, se Egern (flertydig). (Se også artikler, som begynder med Egern) Egern (latin: Sciurus vulgaris), også kaldet rødt egern, europæisk egern eller almindeligt egern, er en gnaver i egernfamilien med en kropslængde på omkring 22 centimeter. Den store hale måler 17 centimeter. Det er almindeligt forekommende i Danmark, både i en rød, brun og sort farvevariant.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.
- 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
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 mass0.33 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 0.6 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.21 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass6.03 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan15 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length4.42 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity361 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation38 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 38 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 4COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.05 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density33 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l0.3 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderRodentia
- ›familySciuridae
- ›genusSciurus
- ›speciesSciurus vulgaris
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- familySciuridae
- tribeSciurini
All 14 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRodents · Rodentia
- suborderSciuromorpha
- familySciuridae
- tribeSciurini
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