It is hard to guess what a Amazon weasel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Amazon weasel (Mustela africana) on average weights 268 grams (0.59 lbs).
The Amazon weasel is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mustela). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.5 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Amazon weasel (Mustela africana), also known as the tropical weasel, is a species of weasel native to South America. It was first identified from a museum specimen mislabelled as coming from Africa, hence the scientific name.
Animals of the same family as a Amazon weasel
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- European polecat with a weight of 980 grams
- European pine marten bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri marten bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese ferret-badger with a weight of 939 grams
- Marine otter bringing 11.2 kilos (24.69 lbs) to the scale
- Eurasian otter bringing 8.86 kilos (19.53 lbs) to the scale
- European badger bringing 11.89 kilos (26.21 lbs) to the scale
- Hog badger bringing 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted-necked otter bringing 4.18 kilos (9.22 lbs) to the scale
- Stoat with a weight of 284 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Amazon weasel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mustela africana:
- Lyle’s flying fox bringing 319 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s pocket gopher bringing 263 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Tucuman tuco-tuco bringing 217 grams to the scale
- Pteropus temmincki bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied squirrel bringing 265 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed squirrel bringing 319 grams to the scale
- Particolored flying squirrel bringing 255 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Amazon weasel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Amazon weasel:
- Goldman’s woodrat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Boehm’s bush squirrel with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ontong Java flying fox with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)