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016 Indian palm squirrel in Keoladeo National Park Photo by Giles Laurent🐿️

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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Indian palm squirrel

Funambulus palmarum (Linnaeus, 1766)

Das Indische Palmenhörnchen (Funambulus palmarum) ist eine Hörnchenart aus der Gattung der Gestreiften Palmenhörnchen (Funambulus). Es ist in einem großen Gebiet von Zentral- und Süd-Indien sowie auf Sri Lanka verbreitet.

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Also called
Common Palm Squirrel, Three-striped Palm Squirrel
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.14 kg
Body length
0.18 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5.49 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Indian palm squirrel

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

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

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

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

Generation length
3 yearsestimated
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Gestation
34 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 34 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
about 3
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2.75AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Omnivore
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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

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

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Indian palm squirrel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusFunambulus
  7. ›speciesFunambulus palmarum
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familySciuridae
  4. genusFunambulus
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  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. genusFunambulus
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants60%
insects and other invertebrates20%
seeds and grain20%
In other languages
Indisches Palmenhörnchen (de), Pasecznik palmowy (pl), Funambulus palmarum (fr), Пальмовая белка (ru), Indische palmeekhoorn (nl), Funambulus palmarum (it) … and 14 more languages
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