It is hard to guess what a Cape gray mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cape gray mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta) on average weights 791 grams (1.74 lbs).
The Cape gray mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Galerella). It is usually born with about 20 grams (0.04 lbs). They can live for up to 8.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35 cm (1′ 2″). Usually, Cape gray mongooses have 2 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 Cape grey mongoose (Galerella pulverulenta), also called the small grey mongoose, is a small mammal native to South Africa, Lesotho and southern Namibia.
Animals of the same family as a Cape gray mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Bushy-tailed mongoose bringing 1.72 kilos (3.79 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a weight of 815 grams
- Javan mongoose with a weight of 758 grams
- Egyptian mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Narrow-striped mongoose with a weight of 664 grams
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a weight of 550 grams
- Meerkat with a weight of 730 grams
- Angolan kusimanse with a weight of 700 grams
- Slender mongoose with a weight of 530 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cape gray mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galerella pulverulenta:
- Brush rabbit bringing 716 grams to the scale
- Maned rat bringing 755 grams to the scale
- Rock cavy bringing 800 grams to the scale
- Andean squirrel bringing 803 grams to the scale
- Spix’s night monkey bringing 873 grams to the scale
- New England cottontail bringing 814 grams to the scale
- Hispaniolan solenodon bringing 893 grams to the scale
- Bahamian hutia bringing 912 grams to the scale
- Eastern barred bandicoot bringing 903 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed bandicoot bringing 720 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Cape gray mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cape gray mongoose:
- Weyland ringtail possum with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hispaniolan hutia with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- New England cottontail with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Ring-tailed cat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Northern viscacha with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Common kusimanse with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Indian grey mongoose with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Mongoose lemur with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail with a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cape gray mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Cape gray mongoose:
- True’s vole
- Platypus
- Slender rat
- Durango chipmunk
- Cacomistle
- Southern pygmy mouse
- Black-striped squirrel
- Northern yellow bat
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Van Deusen’s rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cape gray mongoose
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cape gray mongoose:
- Plantain squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.58 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Whiskered bat with an average maximal age of 9.25 years
- Central American agouti with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Maned rat with an average maximal age of 7.5 years
- Naked mole-rat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Bush dog with an average maximal age of 10.33 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with an average maximal age of 8.58 years