It is hard to guess what a Banded linsang weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Banded linsang (Prionodon linsang) on average weights 684 grams (1.51 lbs).
The Banded linsang is from the family Viverridae (genus: Prionodon). It is usually born with about 40 grams (0.09 lbs). They can live for up to 10.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 40 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Banded linsangs have 2 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 banded linsang (Prionodon linsang) is a linsang, a tree-dwelling carnivorous mammal native to the Sundaic region of Southeast Asia.
Animals of the same family as a Banded linsang
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Malayan civet bringing 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs) to the scale
- Servaline genet bringing 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs) to the scale
- Banded palm civet bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Johnston’s genet bringing 2.23 kilos (4.92 lbs) to the scale
- Abyssinian genet bringing 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted linsang bringing 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs) to the scale
- Malagasy civet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- Giant forest genet bringing 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs) to the scale
- Central African oyan with a weight of 570 grams
- Eastern falanouc bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Banded linsang
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Prionodon linsang:
- Moustached tamarin bringing 557 grams to the scale
- Ring-tailed vontsira bringing 815 grams to the scale
- Goeldi’s marmoset bringing 558 grams to the scale
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 751 grams to the scale
- Yellow ground squirrel bringing 779 grams to the scale
- Eastern spotted skunk bringing 568 grams to the scale
- Aotus infulatus bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Striped polecat bringing 812 grams to the scale
- Bolivian bamboo rat bringing 729 grams to the scale
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey bringing 791 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Banded linsang
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Banded linsang:
- Nine-banded armadillo with a size of 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Ground cuscus with a size of 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Cape hare with a size of 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black-footed cat with a size of 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Reclusive ringtail possum with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Jameson’s red rock hare with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Common spotted cuscus with a size of 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Yarkand hare with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Banded linsang
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Banded linsang:
- Mechow’s mole-rat
- American pika
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Tayra
- Saharan striped polecat
- Pouched gerbil
- Giant white-tailed rat
- Greater mole-rat
- Sarcophilus laniarius
- Caracal
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Banded linsang
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Banded linsang:
- Common noctule with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Pale fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Siberian weasel with an average maximal age of 8.83 years
- Oncilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Coypu with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years