It is hard to guess what a African striped weasel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult African striped weasel (Poecilogale albinucha) on average weights 308 grams (0.68 lbs).
The African striped weasel is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Poecilogale). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 5.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.4 cm (1′ 0″). On average, African striped weasels can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 African striped weasel (Poecilogale albinucha), the lone member of its genus, is a small, black and white weasel native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Animals of the same family as a African striped weasel
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Hooded skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- Sea otter bringing 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs) to the scale
- African clawless otter bringing 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs) to the scale
- Marbled polecat with a weight of 594 grams
- Spotted-necked otter bringing 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs) to the scale
- Amazon weasel with a weight of 268 grams
- Bornean ferret-badger with 2 babies per litter
- Eurasian otter bringing 8.86 kilos (19.53 lbs) to the scale
- Patagonian weasel with a weight of 225 grams
- Least weasel with a weight of 79 grams
Animals with the same weight as a African striped weasel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Poecilogale albinucha:
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Southern mountain cavy bringing 261 grams to the scale
- Mechow’s mole-rat bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Emily’s tuco-tuco bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Borneo black-banded squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tree-rat bringing 315 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Napo spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a African striped weasel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as African striped weasel:
- Eastern gray squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Common kusimanse with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black flying fox with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-headed night monkey with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Angolan kusimanse with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- New England cottontail with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Baja California rock squirrel with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-bearded flying fox with a size of 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-eared opossum with a size of 36 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a African striped weasel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a African striped weasel:
- Richmond’s squirrel
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Maned wolf
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Black-tailed mouse
- Eastern harvest mouse
- White-lipped tamarin
- Indian palm squirrel
- Lusitanian pine vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a African striped weasel
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a African striped weasel:
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- White-tailed rat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Western quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Silky pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Uinta ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Musky rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years