016 Indian palm squirrel in Keoladeo National Park Photo by Giles Laurent🐿️

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SpeciesRodentiaSciuridae
Mammals

🐿️Indian palm squirrel

Funambulus palmarum (Linnaeus, 1766)

De Indische palmeekhoorn (Funambulus palmarum) is een zoogdier uit de familie van de eekhoorns (Sciuridae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd door Linnaeus in 1766.

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Also called
Common Palm Squirrel, Three-striped Palm Squirrel
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendIncreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.14 kg
Body length
0.18 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
5.49 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Indian palm squirrel

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

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

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

Maximum lifespan
5.49 years
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Generation length
3 yearsestimated
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Gestation
34 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 34 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
about 3
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 2.75AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Omnivore
COMBINE
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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

Volume l
0.1 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Indian palm squirrel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderRodentia
  5. ›familySciuridae
  6. ›genusFunambulus
  7. ›speciesFunambulus palmarum
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderRodents · Rodentia
  3. familySciuridae
  4. genusFunambulus
All 14 branches ↓
  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. genusFunambulus
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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants60%
insects and other invertebrates20%
seeds and grain20%
In other languages
Indisches Palmenhörnchen (de), Pasecznik palmowy (pl), Funambulus palmarum (fr), Пальмовая белка (ru), Indische palmeekhoorn (nl), Funambulus palmarum (it) … and 14 more languages
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