How big does a Smooth-coated otter get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) reaches an average size of 78.8 cm (2′ 8″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 15 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 8.96 kg (19.74 lbs). A Smooth-coated otter has 3 babies at once. The Smooth-coated otter (genus: Lutrogale) is a member of the family Mustelidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is an otter species occurring in most of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with a disjunct population in Iraq. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 and is threatened by habitat loss, pollution of wetlands and poaching for the illegal wildlife trade. As its name indicates, its fur is smooth and shorter than that of other otter species.
Animals of the same family as a Smooth-coated otter
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Patagonian weasel with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Yellow-throated marten with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Fisher (animal) with a size of 75.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Lesser grison with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Siberian weasel with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hog badger with a size of 69.2 cm (2′ 4″)
- Southern river otter with a size of 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Giant otter with a size of 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Spotted-necked otter with a size of 59.7 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same size as a Smooth-coated otter
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Smooth-coated otter:
- Bay duiker with a size of 84.9 cm (2′ 10″)
- Short-eared dog with a size of 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Jaguarundi with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Canada lynx with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Ursine colobus with a size of 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Eurasian lynx with a size of 85.4 cm (2′ 10″)
- Bobcat with a size of 69.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Drill (animal) with a size of 70 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Smooth-coated otter
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Smooth-coated otter:
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse
- Lesser mole-rat
- Silky pocket mouse
- Greater red musk shrew
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse
- Comb-toed jerboa
- Asian palm civet
- Pale kangaroo mouse
- Hog badger
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Smooth-coated otter
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Smooth-coated otter:
- Topi with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- Jentink’s duiker with an average maximal age of 17.5 years
- Himalayan goral with an average maximal age of 17.58 years
- Mountain reedbuck with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Suni with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Tammar wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Smooth-coated otter
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lutrogale perspicillata:
- Tasmanian devil with a weight of 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque with a weight of 7.37 kilos (16.25 lbs)
- Toolache wallaby with a weight of 10 kilos (22.05 lbs)
- Aardwolf with a weight of 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat with a weight of 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.23 kilos (18.14 lbs)
- Black colobus with a weight of 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Dusky leaf monkey with a weight of 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.56 kilos (18.87 lbs)