How big does a Central African oyan get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Central African oyan (Poiana richardsonii) reaches an average size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 5.33 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 570 grams (1.26 lbs). A Central African oyan has 2 babies at once. The Central African oyan (genus: Poiana) 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 Central African oyan (Poiana richardsonii), also called Central African linsang, is a linsang species native to Central Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Central African oyan
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Banded linsang with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Small-toothed palm civet with a size of 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Golden palm civet with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Malayan civet with a size of 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Johnston’s genet bringing 2.23 kilos (4.92 lbs) to the scale
- Aquatic genet with a size of 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Abyssinian genet with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
Animals with the same size as a Central African oyan
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Central African oyan:
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a size of 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tailless tenrec with a size of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Lutrine opossum with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Brush rabbit with a size of 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Ground cuscus with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Robust cottontail with a size of 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- African brush-tailed porcupine with a size of 43.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red giant flying squirrel with a size of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Central African oyan
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Central African oyan:
- Fraser’s musk shrew
- Common marmoset
- Greater tree mouse
- Fresno kangaroo rat
- Target rat
- Snow leopard
- Peters’s striped mouse
- Wilson’s spiny mouse
- Lundomys
- Brown hyena
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Central African oyan
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Central African oyan:
- Cave nectar bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Rakali with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Tailless tenrec with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- Hazel dormouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Central African oyan
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Poiana richardsonii:
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- Indonesian mountain weasel bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Allen’s squirrel bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Bolivian tuco-tuco bringing 462 grams to the scale
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Forest giant squirrel bringing 630 grams to the scale
- Pemba flying fox bringing 541 grams to the scale
- Michoacan pocket gopher bringing 474 grams to the scale
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat bringing 573 grams to the scale
- Rakali bringing 626 grams to the scale