It is hard to guess what a Asian palm civet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) on average weights 3.2 kg (7.05 lbs).
The Asian palm civet is from the family Viverridae (genus: Paradoxurus). It is usually born with about 92 grams (0.2 lbs). They can live for up to 22.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 53.3 cm (1′ 9″). Usually, Asian palm civets have 3 babies per litter.
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 Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. Since 2008, it is IUCN Red Listed as Least Concern as it accommodates to a broad range of habitats. It is widely distributed with large populations that in 2008 were thought unlikely to be declining.In Indonesia, it is threatened by poaching and illegal wildlife trade; buyers use it for the increasing production of kopi luwak, a form of coffee that involves ingestion and excretion of the beans by the animal.Asian palm civets are claimed to be the carrier that transmitted SARS from horseshoe bats to humans.
Animals of the same family as a Asian palm civet
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Otter civet bringing 4.25 kilos (9.37 lbs) to the scale
- Cape genet bringing 2.07 kilos (4.56 lbs) to the scale
- Large Indian civet bringing 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs) to the scale
- Owston’s palm civet bringing 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) to the scale
- Central African oyan with a weight of 570 grams
- Servaline genet bringing 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs) to the scale
- African palm civet bringing 2.17 kilos (4.78 lbs) to the scale
- Giant forest genet bringing 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs) to the scale
- Aquatic genet bringing 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs) to the scale
- Malagasy civet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Asian palm civet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paradoxurus hermaphroditus:
- Flat-headed cat with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)
- Aye-aye with a weight of 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs)
- White-tailed jackrabbit with a weight of 3.38 kilos (7.45 lbs)
- Crested agouti with a weight of 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose with a weight of 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet with a weight of 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat with a weight of 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs)
- Asian small-clawed otter with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti with a weight of 2.9 kilos (6.39 lbs)
- Corsac fox with a weight of 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Asian palm civet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Asian palm civet:
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Scrub hare with a size of 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Stripe-necked mongoose with a size of 47.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Spotted-necked otter with a size of 59.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Java mouse-deer with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Gray fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Cape fox with a size of 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Antelope jackrabbit with a size of 54.6 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tibetan macaque with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Asian palm civet
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Asian palm civet:
- Middle East blind mole-rat
- Plains pocket gopher
- Southwestern water vole
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse
- Chilean rock rat
- Small Japanese mole
- Water opossum
- Handleyomys melanotis
- Yarkand hare
- Slender harvest mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Asian palm civet
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Asian palm civet:
- Leopard seal with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Sambar deer with an average maximal age of 26.42 years
- Kob with an average maximal age of 21.92 years
- Indiana bat with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Allen’s swamp monkey with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Kit fox with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Mule deer with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with an average maximal age of 19.75 years
- Binturong with an average maximal age of 22.67 years
- Hartebeest with an average maximal age of 20 years