It is hard to guess what a Brown palm civet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown palm civet (Paradoxurus jerdoni) on average weights 3.55 kg (7.82 lbs).
The Brown palm civet is from the family Viverridae (genus: Paradoxurus). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 58.9 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Brown 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 brown palm civet (Paradoxurus jerdoni) also called the Jerdon’s palm civet is a palm civet endemic to the Western Ghats of India.
Animals of the same family as a Brown palm civet
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Angolan genet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- Abyssinian genet bringing 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs) to the scale
- Malabar large-spotted civet bringing 12.08 kilos (26.63 lbs) to the scale
- Banded palm civet bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Small Indian civet bringing 2.95 kilos (6.5 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern falanouc bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Small-toothed palm civet bringing 2.32 kilos (5.11 lbs) to the scale
- Binturong bringing 13 kilos (28.66 lbs) to the scale
- Large Indian civet bringing 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs) to the scale
- Sulawesi palm civet bringing 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Brown palm civet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paradoxurus jerdoni:
- Tiger quoll with a weight of 3.32 kilos (7.32 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Bat-eared fox with a weight of 4.07 kilos (8.97 lbs)
- Short-eared possum with a weight of 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs)
- Small Indian civet with a weight of 2.95 kilos (6.5 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter with a weight of 4.18 kilos (9.22 lbs)
- Brown-throated sloth with a weight of 4 kilos (8.82 lbs)
- Sechuran fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat with a weight of 3.05 kilos (6.72 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown palm civet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brown palm civet:
- Raccoon with a size of 48.6 cm (1′ 8″)
- Gray dorcopsis with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tayra with a size of 61.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Owston’s palm civet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Eurasian otter with a size of 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Western red colobus with a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red-faced spider monkey with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Yellow-throated marten with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a size of 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brown palm civet
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Brown palm civet:
- Painted spiny pocket mouse
- Desert warthog
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
- Peruvian tuco-tuco
- Cape golden mole
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
- Snowshoe hare
- Striped hog-nosed skunk
- Small Japanese mole
- Southern big-eared mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown palm civet
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown palm civet:
- Sharpe’s grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Central American agouti with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Brown mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Steenbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Red acouchi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- European mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- American red squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years