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The Indian giant squirrel🐿️

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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Indian giant squirrel

Ratufa indica (Erxleben, 1777)

L'écureuil géant de l'Inde (Ratufa indica) est une espèce de grands écureuils du genre Ratufa originaire de l'Inde. C'est un grand Sciuridé diurne, arboricole et principalement herbivore que l'on trouve en Asie du Sud.

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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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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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Brain mass
12 g
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Maximum lifespan
20 years
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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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  • 84 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Omnivore
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Activity cycle
Diurnal
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Population density
6.85 per km²
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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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