It is hard to guess what a Aquatic genet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Aquatic genet (Osbornictis piscivora) on average weights 1.65 kg (3.64 lbs).
The Aquatic genet is from the family Viverridae (genus: Osbornictis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45.8 cm (1′ 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 aquatic genet (Genetta piscivora) is a genet that has only been recorded in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since it is only known from about 30 specimens in zoological collections, it had been listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List since 1996, as it is considered one of Africa’s rarest carnivores. In 2015, it has been reassessed as Near Threatened.When Allen described the aquatic genet as a new genus and species in 1919, he named it Osbornictis piscivora. It was reassessed in 2004, and based on molecular evidence is now considered a Genetta species.
Animals of the same family as a Aquatic genet
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Large Indian civet bringing 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs) to the scale
- Common genet bringing 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) to the scale
- African civet bringing 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs) to the scale
- Small-toothed palm civet bringing 2.32 kilos (5.11 lbs) to the scale
- Banded linsang with a weight of 684 grams
- Central African oyan with a weight of 570 grams
- Malabar large-spotted civet bringing 12.08 kilos (26.63 lbs) to the scale
- Asian palm civet bringing 3.2 kilos (7.05 lbs) to the scale
- Malayan civet bringing 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs) to the scale
- Brown palm civet bringing 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Aquatic genet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Osbornictis piscivora:
- Little Swan Island hutia with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Red giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
- Manchurian hare with a weight of 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine with a weight of 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs)
- Rothschild’s cuscus with a weight of 1.37 kilos (3.02 lbs)
- Platypus with a weight of 1.48 kilos (3.26 lbs)
- Java mouse-deer with a weight of 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs)
- Small dorcopsis with a weight of 1.89 kilos (4.17 lbs)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a weight of 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Aquatic genet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Aquatic genet:
- Java mouse-deer with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Riverine rabbit with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tufted capuchin with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Granada hare with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pig-tailed langur with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Mountain hare with a size of 50.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Burmese ferret-badger with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- African palm civet with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- White-bellied spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)