It is hard to guess what a Ring-tailed vontsira weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ring-tailed vontsira (Galidia elegans) on average weights 815 grams (1.8 lbs).
The Ring-tailed vontsira is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Galidia). It is usually born with about 48 grams (0.11 lbs). They can live for up to 13.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.2 cm (1′ 2″). On average, Ring-tailed vontsiras can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 ring-tailed vontsira, locally still known as the ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans) is a euplerid in the subfamily Galidiinae, a carnivoran native to Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Ring-tailed vontsira
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Short-tailed mongoose bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow mongoose with a weight of 694 grams
- Egyptian mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Cape gray mongoose with a weight of 791 grams
- Common kusimanse bringing 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Alexander’s kusimanse bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Common dwarf mongoose with a weight of 283 grams
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a weight of 550 grams
- Angolan kusimanse with a weight of 700 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ring-tailed vontsira
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galidia elegans:
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 873 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Meerkat bringing 730 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied titi bringing 962 grams to the scale
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 736 grams to the scale
- Namaqua slender mongoose bringing 750 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded flying fox bringing 872 grams to the scale
- Cape gray mongoose bringing 791 grams to the scale
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel bringing 675 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed ground squirrel bringing 743 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ring-tailed vontsira
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ring-tailed vontsira:
- Black dwarf porcupine with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Long-footed potoroo with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Jamaican coney with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Marsh rabbit with a size of 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Angolan kusimanse with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Water opossum with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bahamian hutia with a size of 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Spotted linsang with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black giant squirrel with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ring-tailed vontsira
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Ring-tailed vontsira:
- Miniopterus macrocneme
- Bechstein’s bat
- Mantled howler
- Black lemur
- Dusky pademelon
- Angolan talapoin
- Eastern forest bat
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Senegal bushbaby
- Mountain paca
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Ring-tailed vontsira
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Ring-tailed vontsira:
- Water deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Blue duiker with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Grey long-eared bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Steenbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Speke’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Common duiker with an average maximal age of 14.25 years
- Red squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Arabian tahr with an average maximal age of 14 years