It is hard to guess what a Banded palm civet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Banded palm civet (Hemigalus derbyanus) on average weights 1.27 kg (2.79 lbs).
The Banded palm civet is from the family Viverridae (genus: Hemigalus). It is usually born with about 125 grams (0.28 lbs). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 46 cm (1′ 7″). Usually, Banded palm civets have 1 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 palm civet (Hemigalus derbyanus), also called the banded civet, is a civet found in the Sundaic region and occurs in Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, peninsular Thailand, and in Indonesia on the islands of Sipura, Sumatra and Borneo. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because of its large geographic and elevation range and tolerance to some habitat disturbance.Hemigalus is a monospecific genus that was first named and described by Claude Jourdan in 1837.
Animals of the same family as a Banded palm civet
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Masked palm civet bringing 4.3 kilos (9.48 lbs) to the scale
- Malayan civet bringing 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs) to the scale
- Crested servaline genet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- Sulawesi palm civet bringing 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs) to the scale
- Large Indian civet bringing 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs) to the scale
- Brown palm civet bringing 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs) to the scale
- Large-spotted civet bringing 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs) to the scale
- Otter civet bringing 4.25 kilos (9.37 lbs) to the scale
- Malagasy civet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- Abyssinian genet bringing 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Banded palm civet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemigalus derbyanus:
- Boodie with a weight of 1.45 kilos (3.2 lbs)
- Red acouchi with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Great flying fox with a weight of 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs)
- Abyssinian genet with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
- Banded mongoose with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
- Common opossum with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Emin’s pouched rat with a weight of 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs)
- Greater glider with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox with a weight of 1.09 kilos (2.4 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Banded palm civet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Banded palm civet:
- White-nosed coati with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Chinese pangolin with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Nine-banded armadillo with a size of 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Dusky pademelon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Tana River mangabey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Woodlark cuscus with a size of 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Cacomistle with a size of 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Indian grey mongoose with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Banded palm civet
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Banded palm civet:
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Philippine tarsier
- White-nosed saki
- Tree bat
- Red-tailed monkey
- Mashona mole-rat
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
- Southern tamandua
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Banded palm civet
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Banded palm civet:
- Common duiker with an average maximal age of 14.25 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Indian pangolin with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Oncilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Banded linsang with an average maximal age of 10.67 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Common treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12.42 years
- Quokka with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years