How big does a Banded linsang get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Banded linsang (Prionodon linsang) reaches an average size of 40 cm (1′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 10.67 years, they grow from 40 grams (0.09 lbs) to 684 grams (1.51 lbs). A Banded linsang has 2 babies at once. The Banded linsang (genus: Prionodon) is a member of the family Viverridae.
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 banded linsang (Prionodon linsang) is a linsang, a tree-dwelling carnivorous mammal native to the Sundaic region of Southeast Asia.
Animals of the same family as a Banded linsang
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Malabar large-spotted civet with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Rusty-spotted genet with 2 babies per litter
- Giant forest genet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Owston’s palm civet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Otter civet with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Masked palm civet with a size of 63.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Malayan civet with a size of 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- African palm civet with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
Animals with the same size as a Banded linsang
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Banded linsang:
- Black bearded saki with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Indian grey mongoose with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern quoll with a size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-footed ferret with a size of 39.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Beech marten with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tres Marias rabbit with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Yunnan hare with a size of 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-bellied lemur with a size of 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Small dorcopsis with a size of 38.7 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Banded linsang
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Banded linsang:
- Siberian roe deer
- Saharan striped polecat
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Mexican small-eared shrew
- Binturong
- Common treeshrew
- Lundomys
- Deppe’s squirrel
- Tolai hare
- Marsh rabbit
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Banded linsang
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Banded linsang:
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Saiga antelope with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Four-horned antelope with an average maximal age of 10.75 years
- Edible dormouse with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Black-footed cat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- African wild dog with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Plains viscacha with an average maximal age of 9.33 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Banded linsang
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Prionodon linsang:
- Narrow-striped mongoose bringing 664 grams to the scale
- Javan mongoose bringing 758 grams to the scale
- European hedgehog bringing 789 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- Variable pocket gopher bringing 615 grams to the scale
- Dark spiny tree-rat bringing 627 grams to the scale
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 751 grams to the scale
- Painted ringtail possum bringing 639 grams to the scale
- Cape ground squirrel bringing 572 grams to the scale
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum bringing 796 grams to the scale