Grey squirrel standing, Bute Park, Cardiff🐿️

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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Eastern gray squirrel

Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788

동부회색청서(영어: Eastern gray squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis)는 북미 지역에 주로 서식하는 청서속에 속하는 청설모의 일종이다. 도시 환경에서도 잘 적응했기 때문에, 미국이나 캐나다의 공원에서도 흔히 볼 수 있다. 청서속에 속하는 동부회색청서는 유라시아의 줄무늬가 있는 다람쥐(chipmunk)가 아닌 미국과 유럽의 청서나 여우청서 같은 청설모(squirrel) 종류이다.

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≈ 1/110th of your weight
Also called
Grey Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, Grey squirrel
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.54 kg
Body length
0.32 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eastern gray squirrel

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

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

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  • 0.53 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.32 m
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Brain mass
7.5 g
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Maximum lifespan
24 years
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  • 24 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
7.61 years
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Age at maturity
338 days
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Gestation
44 days
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  • 44 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 3
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  • 4AnAgeAnAge 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
690 per km²
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Volume l
0.5 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 Eastern gray squirrel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusSciurus
  7. ›speciesSciurus carolinensis
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familySciuridae
  4. tribeSciurini
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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. tribeSciurini
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Closest relative on this site
🐿️ Eurasian Red Squirrel — last shared an ancestor ≈ 10 million years ago.
What it eats
seeds and grain50%
leaves, roots and other plants30%
fruit20%
In other languages
østamerikansk gråekorn (nb), Grauhörnchen (de), wiewiórka szara (pl), écureuil gris (fr), Sciurus carolinensis (es), keleti szürkemókus (hu) … and 23 more languages

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