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Indian Giant Squirrel

🇳🇱 Reuzenpalmeekhoorn ·Ratufa indica

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Ramesh Shenai · CC BY 4.0
  2. 2. © Subhadra Devi · CC BY 4.0
  3. 3. © Joe Holt · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Danny Martin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  5. 5. © Daniel George · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © sandeep75 · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Scott Bowers · CC BY-NC 4.0
Indian Giant Squirrel, photo 1 of 7
1/7 © Ramesh Shenai · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The Indian giant squirrel , or Malabar giant squirrel , ( Ratufa indica ) is a large tree squirrel species genus Ratufa native to India. It is a large-bodied diurnal, arboreal, and mainly herbivorous squirrel found in South Asia.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,555iNaturalist observations
  • threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 2,555 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben in 1777 (249 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Indian Giant Squirrel
Nederlands
Reuzenpalmeekhoorn
scientific name
Ratufa indica
class
Mammalia
order
Rodentia
family
Sciuridae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
2,555
GBIF records in NL
1
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1777 by Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Sciuridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 46030, Wikidata Q2668978, GBIF 2437565, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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