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🐿️American red squirrel

Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben, 1777)

L'Écureuil roux américain (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) est une espèce d'écureuils présente au Canada et aux États-Unis.

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≈ 1/290th of your weight
Also called
Red Squirrel
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.21 kg
Body length
0.19 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Everything we know about the American red squirrel

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

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

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  • 0.2 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.19 m
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Brain mass
4.36 g
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Maximum lifespan
12 years
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  • 9.8 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
3.98 years
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Age at maturity
358 days
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Gestation
37 days
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  • 37 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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  • 4.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Home range
0.01 km²
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Population density
233 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.2 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 American red squirrel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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What it eats
warm-blooded animals22%
fruit22%
seeds and grain22%
leaves, roots and other plants22%
nectar11%
In other languages
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (de), sosnowiórka czerwona (pl), Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (fr), Красная белка (ru), Amerika kızıl sincabı (tr), punaorava (fi) … and 17 more languages
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