It is hard to guess what a Chinese ferret-badger weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata) on average weights 939 grams (2.07 lbs).
The Chinese ferret-badger is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Melogale). They can live for up to 10.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 38.5 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Chinese ferret-badgers 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 Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata), also known as the small-toothed ferret-badger is a member of the Mustelidae, and widely distributed in Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List and considered tolerant of modified habitat.The Chinese ferret-badger is densely distributed mainly across areas of Central to Southern China.
Animals of the same family as a Chinese ferret-badger
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- American marten with a weight of 878 grams
- Nilgiri marten bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- Steppe polecat bringing 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs) to the scale
- Steppe polecat bringing 1.69 kilos (3.73 lbs) to the scale
- Amazon weasel with a weight of 268 grams
- Fisher (animal) bringing 3.75 kilos (8.27 lbs) to the scale
- African clawless otter bringing 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs) to the scale
- Stoat with a weight of 284 grams
- Hairy-nosed otter bringing 5.97 kilos (13.16 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean ferret-badger with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese ferret-badger
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Melogale moschata:
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox with a weight of 1.09 kilos (2.4 lbs)
- Tailless tenrec bringing 894 grams to the scale
- Hispaniolan solenodon bringing 893 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum bringing 765 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Black-headed night monkey with a weight of 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs)
- Common echymipera bringing 825 grams to the scale
- Rio Mayo titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- New England cottontail bringing 814 grams to the scale
- Javan mongoose bringing 758 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chinese ferret-badger
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chinese ferret-badger:
- Western quoll with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sunda flying lemur with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Ruddy mongoose with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Greater bamboo lemur with a size of 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Small-toothed sportive lemur with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-tailed porcupine with a size of 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Alpine woolly rat with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Peruvian spider monkey with a size of 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Bahamian hutia with a size of 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Banded linsang with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chinese ferret-badger
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Chinese ferret-badger:
- Large treeshrew
- Javanese flying squirrel
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
- Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel
- Greater stick-nest rat
- Mexican vole
- Clouded leopard
- Red panda
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Layard’s palm squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Chinese ferret-badger
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Chinese ferret-badger:
- Zebra duiker with an average maximal age of 12.17 years
- American mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Short-eared dog with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Grey rhebok with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Coypu with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Silver-haired bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Arabian gazelle with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Common spotted cuscus with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years