It is hard to guess what a Bushy-tailed mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bushy-tailed mongoose (Bdeogale crassicauda) on average weights 1.72 kg (3.79 lbs).
The Bushy-tailed mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Bdeogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 44.6 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, Bushy-tailed mongooses 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.
Animals of the same family as a Bushy-tailed mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a weight of 550 grams
- Common dwarf mongoose with a weight of 283 grams
- Ruddy mongoose bringing 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs) to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose with a weight of 711 grams
- Jackson’s mongoose bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed mongoose bringing 3.66 kilos (8.07 lbs) to the scale
- Black-footed mongoose bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
- Gambian mongoose bringing 1.64 kilos (3.62 lbs) to the scale
- Alexander’s kusimanse bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Slender mongoose with a weight of 530 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bushy-tailed mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bdeogale crassicauda:
- Short-tailed mongoose with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- European rabbit with a weight of 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs)
- Red giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs)
- Hainan hare with a weight of 1.52 kilos (3.35 lbs)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Yarkand hare with a weight of 1.47 kilos (3.24 lbs)
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine with a weight of 2 kilos (4.41 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus with a weight of 1.63 kilos (3.59 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Cape hare with a weight of 2.05 kilos (4.52 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bushy-tailed mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bushy-tailed mongoose:
- European hare with a size of 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Abyssinian genet with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Moustached guenon with a size of 52 cm (1′ 9″)
- Haussa genet with a size of 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Aquatic genet with a size of 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- David’s echymipera with a size of 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- European rabbit with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Crested servaline genet with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Raccoon dog with a size of 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bushy-tailed mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bushy-tailed mongoose: