It is hard to guess what a Bengal mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bengal mongoose (Herpestes palustris) on average weights 741 grams (1.63 lbs).
The Bengal mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Herpestes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.8 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 Bengal mongoose (Herpestes javanicus palustris) is a subspecies of the Javan mongoose. It is also known as the marsh mongoose, not to be confused with Atilax paludinosus, which is also called the marsh mongoose. Other synonyms include Indian marsh mongoose and Bengali water mongoose.
Animals of the same family as a Bengal mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Black-footed mongoose bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
- Cape gray mongoose with a weight of 791 grams
- Short-tailed mongoose bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan kusimanse with a weight of 700 grams
- Brown-tailed mongoose with a weight of 711 grams
- Common kusimanse bringing 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs) to the scale
- Marsh mongoose bringing 3.6 kilos (7.94 lbs) to the scale
- Narrow-striped mongoose with a weight of 664 grams
- Yellow mongoose with a weight of 694 grams
- Javan mongoose with a weight of 758 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bengal mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Herpestes palustris:
- Abert’s squirrel bringing 623 grams to the scale
- Brumback’s night monkey bringing 603 grams to the scale
- Mountain beaver bringing 806 grams to the scale
- David’s echymipera bringing 817 grams to the scale
- Peruvian night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Yellow mongoose bringing 694 grams to the scale
- Central American squirrel monkey bringing 714 grams to the scale
- Mottle-faced tamarin bringing 803 grams to the scale
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey bringing 888 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum bringing 765 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bengal mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bengal mongoose:
- Water opossum with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-footed tree-rat with a size of 30.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Gray-bellied night monkey with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-footed potoroo with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Giant otter shrew with a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mimic tree rat with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- White-eared opossum with a size of 36 cm (1′ 3″)