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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Eurasian Red Squirrel

Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758

청서(靑鼠, 영어: red squirrel, Eurasian red squirrel, 학명: Sciurus vulgaris)는 다람쥐과의 동물이다. '청서' 또는 '청설모'라는 이름은 청설모가 소나무나 잣나무처럼 사계절 푸른 나무에서 사는 습성 때문에, 또는 털색이 청회색이기 때문에 붙여진 이름일 가능성이 크다. '청설모'(청서모, 靑鼠毛)는 원래 '청서'의 털을 의미했으나, 지금은 대상인 '청서'를 지시한다. 영어 이름 '붉은청서'(red squirrel)는 털 색깔이 붉은색임에서 기인한다. 유럽 지역의 청서는 대부분 털이 붉은빛이 도는 갈색이기 때문이다. 같은 과의 동물인 다람쥐와 달리 겨울잠을 자지 않는다는 것이 특징이다.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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vs you
≈ 1/190th of your weight
Also called
red squirrel, Red Squirrel
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.33 kg
Body length
0.21 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eurasian Red Squirrel

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

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

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  • 0.6 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.21 m
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Brain mass
6.03 g
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Maximum lifespan
15 years
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  • 15 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
4.42 years
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Age at maturity
361 days
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Gestation
38 days
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  • 38 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 4
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  • 5AnAgeAnAge 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
0.05 km²
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Population density
33 per km²
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Volume l
0.3 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 Eurasian Red 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. ›genusSciurus
  7. ›speciesSciurus vulgaris
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
🐿️ Eastern gray squirrel — last shared an ancestor ≈ 10 million years ago.
What it eats
seeds and grain50%
leaves, roots and other plants30%
fruit20%
In other languages
ekorn (nb), 松鼠 (zh), veverka obecná (cs), Eichhoernchen (de), Sciurus vulgaris (es), orava (fi) … and 25 more languages

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