It is hard to guess what a Central African oyan weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Central African oyan (Poiana richardsonii) on average weights 570 grams (1.26 lbs).
The Central African oyan is from the family Viverridae (genus: Poiana). They can live for up to 5.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37.9 cm (1′ 3″). Usually, Central African oyans 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 Central African oyan (Poiana richardsonii), also called Central African linsang, is a linsang species native to Central Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Central African oyan
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Rusty-spotted genet bringing 1.95 kilos (4.3 lbs) to the scale
- Otter civet bringing 4.25 kilos (9.37 lbs) to the scale
- Fossa (animal) bringing 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs) to the scale
- Malabar large-spotted civet bringing 12.08 kilos (26.63 lbs) to the scale
- African palm civet bringing 2.17 kilos (4.78 lbs) to the scale
- Common genet bringing 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) to the scale
- Cape genet bringing 2.07 kilos (4.56 lbs) to the scale
- Large Indian civet bringing 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs) to the scale
- Malayan civet bringing 7.35 kilos (16.2 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan genet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Central African oyan
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Poiana richardsonii:
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Allen’s squirrel bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Gray-backed sportive lemur bringing 506 grams to the scale
- California ground squirrel bringing 598 grams to the scale
- Big-headed African mole-rat bringing 622 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying fox bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Giant tree-rat bringing 584 grams to the scale
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel bringing 675 grams to the scale
- Oaxacan pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Collie’s squirrel bringing 498 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Central African oyan
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Central African oyan:
- Riverine rabbit with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Cuban solenodon with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cacomistle with a size of 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Gambian pouched rat with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a size of 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Xerus erythropus with a size of 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Telefomin cuscus with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Snowshoe hare with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Central African oyan
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Central African oyan:
- Southern brown bandicoot
- Yunnan hare
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
- Platypus
- Spotted hyena
- Red panda
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse
- Long-nosed bandicoot
- Fennec fox
- Common gundi
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Central African oyan
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Central African oyan:
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Hazel dormouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Cave nectar bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Garden dormouse with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Slender mongoose with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Western quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years