It is hard to guess what a Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose (Galidictis fasciata) on average weights 550 grams (1.21 lbs).
The Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Galidictis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 31.9 cm (1′ 1″). On average, Broad-striped Malagasy mongooses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 broad-striped Malagasy mongoose (Galidictis fasciata) is a species of Galidiinae, a subfamily of mongoose-like euplerids native to Madagascar. The species contains two known subspecies: Galidictis fasciata fasciata and Galidictis fasciata striata.Their main distinguishing factors are their stripes and their tails; G. f. fasciata has a fuller, reddish-brown tail and 8-10 stripes, while G. f. striata has a thinner, white tail and 5 stripes. They are all forest-dweller on the eastern side of the island, and their primary prey is small rodents. This species is most active in the evening and at night.The specific epithet fasciata means ‘banded’ in Latin. Its local common name is vontsira fotsy, ‘white vontsira’ in Malagasy.
Animals of the same family as a Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Namaqua slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Bengal mongoose with a weight of 741 grams
- Crab-eating mongoose bringing 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs) to the scale
- Liberian mongoose bringing 1.82 kilos (4.01 lbs) to the scale
- Marsh mongoose bringing 3.6 kilos (7.94 lbs) to the scale
- Meller’s mongoose bringing 2.24 kilos (4.94 lbs) to the scale
- Alexander’s kusimanse bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Indian grey mongoose bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Black-footed mongoose bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
- Ruddy mongoose bringing 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galidictis fasciata:
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Central African oyan bringing 570 grams to the scale
- Arizona gray squirrel bringing 647 grams to the scale
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Painted tree-rat bringing 518 grams to the scale
- Variegated squirrel bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Striped bandicoot bringing 542 grams to the scale
- Atlantic bamboo rat bringing 600 grams to the scale
- White-lipped tamarin bringing 509 grams to the scale
- Indonesian mountain weasel bringing 466 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose:
- Woodlark cuscus with a size of 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Silvery lutung with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Guianan squirrel monkey with a size of 32.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Rock squirrel with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- American mink with a size of 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Reclusive ringtail possum with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Short-beaked echidna with a size of 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose: