It is hard to guess what a Siberian weasel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica) on average weights 531 grams (1.17 lbs).
The Siberian weasel is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mustela). They can live for up to 8.83 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.6 cm (1′ 1″). Usually, Siberian weasels have 6 babies per litter.
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 Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica) is a medium-sized weasel native to Asia, where it is widely distributed and inhabits various forest habitats and open areas. It is therefore listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Siberian weasel
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Japanese marten bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- African striped weasel with a weight of 308 grams
- Tayra bringing 4.14 kilos (9.13 lbs) to the scale
- Beech marten bringing 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) to the scale
- Wolverine bringing 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs) to the scale
- European badger bringing 11.89 kilos (26.21 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-throated marten bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Malayan weasel with a weight of 569 grams
- American marten with a weight of 878 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Siberian weasel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mustela sibirica:
- Peruvian tuco-tuco bringing 489 grams to the scale
- New Guinean quoll bringing 611 grams to the scale
- Kashmir flying squirrel bringing 510 grams to the scale
- Central Texas pocket gopher bringing 599 grams to the scale
- Marbled polecat bringing 594 grams to the scale
- Kashmir flying squirrel bringing 510 grams to the scale
- Epixerus bringing 559 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Big-headed African mole-rat bringing 622 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Siberian weasel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Siberian weasel:
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Greater grison with a size of 25.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Striped polecat with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Eastern quoll with a size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Spotted linsang with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Tailless tenrec with a size of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Northern glider with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Tapeti with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel with a size of 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Siberian weasel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Siberian weasel:
- Gray leaf-eared mouse
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Bronze quoll
- Long-tailed weasel
- Günther’s vole
- Muskrat
- Arctic shrew
- European ground squirrel
- Desert dormouse
- Dwarf shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Siberian weasel
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Siberian weasel:
- Eastern pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Hispaniolan hutia with an average maximal age of 9.83 years
- Red-necked pademelon with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Sarcophilus laniarius with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- European mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Common degu with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years