It is hard to guess what a Namaqua slender mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Namaqua slender mongoose (Galerella swalius) on average weights 750 grams (1.65 lbs).
The Namaqua slender mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Galerella). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 33 cm (1′ 1″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Namaqua slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea swalius), also known as the Namibian slender mongoose, is a subspecies of the slender mongoose. It is endemic to Namibia.
Animals of the same family as a Namaqua slender mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Javan mongoose with a weight of 758 grams
- Common dwarf mongoose with a weight of 283 grams
- Alexander’s kusimanse bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Common kusimanse bringing 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed mongoose bringing 3.66 kilos (8.07 lbs) to the scale
- Meller’s mongoose bringing 2.24 kilos (4.94 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan kusimanse with a weight of 700 grams
- Indian grey mongoose bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Narrow-striped mongoose with a weight of 664 grams
- Brown-tailed mongoose with a weight of 711 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Namaqua slender mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galerella swalius:
- Weasel sportive lemur bringing 670 grams to the scale
- Ring-tailed vontsira bringing 815 grams to the scale
- Peters’s squirrel bringing 650 grams to the scale
- Solomons flying fox bringing 661 grams to the scale
- Mountain beaver bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Central American squirrel monkey bringing 714 grams to the scale
- Desert cottontail bringing 882 grams to the scale
- Western gray squirrel bringing 704 grams to the scale
- New Guinean quoll bringing 611 grams to the scale
- Tailless tenrec bringing 894 grams to the scale