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The Indian giant squirrel🐿️

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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Indian giant squirrel

Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777)

سنجاب غول‌پیکر هندی (نام علمی: Ratufa indica) نام یک گونه از سرده سنجاب غول‌پیکر است.

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≈ 1/59th of your weight
Also called
Malabar Giant Squirrel
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
1.06 kg
Body length
0.46 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Indian giant squirrel

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

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

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

Brain mass
12 g
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Maximum lifespan
20 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

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  • 84 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
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

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

Volume l
1.1 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 Indian giant 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. ›genusRatufa
  7. ›speciesRatufa indica
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. subfamilyRatufinae
  4. genusRatufa
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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. subfamilyRatufinae
  15. genusRatufa
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What it eats
fruit33%
seeds and grain33%
leaves, roots and other plants22%
insects and other invertebrates11%
In other languages
Königsriesenhörnchen (de), écureuil géant de l'Inde (fr), Esquilo-gigante-indiano (pt), Индийская гигантская белка (ru), Ratufa indica (es), indiai királymókus (hu) … and 19 more languages
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