It is hard to guess what a Back-striped weasel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Back-striped weasel (Mustela strigidorsa) on average weights 1.5 kg (3.31 lbs).
The Back-striped weasel is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mustela). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 28.7 cm (1′ 0″).
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 back-striped weasel (Mustela strigidorsa), also called the stripe-backed weasel, is a weasel widely distributed in Southeastern Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List in view of its presumed large population, occurrence in many protected areas, apparent tolerance to some degree of habitat modification and hunting pressure.
Animals of the same family as a Back-striped weasel
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Saharan striped polecat with a weight of 218 grams
- Eurasian otter bringing 8.86 kilos (19.53 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-bellied weasel with a weight of 264 grams
- Japanese marten bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- African clawless otter bringing 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs) to the scale
- Southern river otter bringing 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs) to the scale
- Colombian weasel with a weight of 211 grams
- Bornean ferret-badger with 2 babies per litter
- Yellow-throated marten bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain weasel with a weight of 180 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Back-striped weasel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mustela strigidorsa:
- Ruddy mongoose with a weight of 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs)
- Black jackrabbit with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Gambian mongoose with a weight of 1.64 kilos (3.62 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose with a weight of 1.31 kilos (2.89 lbs)
- Red acouchi with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo with a weight of 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs)
- Greater grison with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Abyssinian genet with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
- African savanna hare with a weight of 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Back-striped weasel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Back-striped weasel:
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Little Swan Island hutia with a size of 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- Collie’s squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black and red bush squirrel with a size of 24.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Peruvian tuco-tuco with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Western white-eared giant rat with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Weyland ringtail possum with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)