It is hard to guess what a Brown-tailed mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown-tailed mongoose (Salanoia concolor) on average weights 711 grams (1.57 lbs).
The Brown-tailed mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Salanoia). They can live for up to 4.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 29.7 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 brown-tailed mongoose, Malagasy brown-tailed mongoose, or salano (Salanoia concolor) is a species of mammal in the family Eupleridae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Brown-tailed mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Bushy-tailed mongoose bringing 1.72 kilos (3.79 lbs) to the scale
- Grandidier’s mongoose bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Common dwarf mongoose with a weight of 283 grams
- Egyptian mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Banded mongoose bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Selous’s mongoose bringing 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) to the scale
- Meerkat with a weight of 730 grams
- Angolan slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Black-footed mongoose bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
- Bengal mongoose with a weight of 741 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brown-tailed mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Salanoia concolor:
- White-footed sportive lemur bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Forest giant squirrel bringing 630 grams to the scale
- Northern greater galago bringing 812 grams to the scale
- Peruvian night monkey bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Indian flying fox bringing 822 grams to the scale
- Rock squirrel bringing 715 grams to the scale
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey bringing 791 grams to the scale
- Solomons flying fox bringing 661 grams to the scale
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel bringing 675 grams to the scale
- Central American squirrel monkey bringing 714 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Brown-tailed mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brown-tailed mongoose:
- Angolan kusimanse with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Water opossum with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Giant white-tailed rat with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Malayan weasel with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Solomons flying fox with a size of 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- Angolan talapoin with a size of 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Malagasy giant rat with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Northern sportive lemur with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown-tailed mongoose
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown-tailed mongoose:
- Common planigale with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Woolley’s false antechinus with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Aders’s duiker with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.67 years
- White-bellied duiker with an average maximal age of 5.25 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years