It is hard to guess what a Common dwarf mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula) on average weights 283 grams (0.62 lbs).
The Common dwarf mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Helogale). They can live for up to 10.92 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 20.2 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Common dwarf mongooses can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula), also called the dwarf mongoose, is a small African carnivore belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It is part of the genus Helogale and as such related to Helogale hirtula.
Animals of the same family as a Common dwarf mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- White-tailed mongoose bringing 3.66 kilos (8.07 lbs) to the scale
- Alexander’s kusimanse bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Namaqua slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Meller’s mongoose bringing 2.24 kilos (4.94 lbs) to the scale
- Banded mongoose bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a weight of 815 grams
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose with a weight of 485 grams
- Egyptian mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Slender mongoose with a weight of 530 grams
- Black-footed mongoose bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Common dwarf mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Helogale parvula:
- Calabar angwantibo bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Minca spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Samoa flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Silky anteater bringing 259 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi giant rat bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Emily’s tuco-tuco bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Speckled spiny tree-rat bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied squirrel bringing 265 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common dwarf mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common dwarf mongoose:
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gambian sun squirrel with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Great-tailed triok with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern mountain cavy with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mindanao squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel with a size of 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Admiralty flying fox with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common dwarf mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Common dwarf mongoose:
- East African highland shrew
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse
- Pyrenean desman
- Cape gerbil
- Namaqua rock rat
- Northern collared lemming
- Polynesian rat
- Peruvian tuco-tuco
- California chipmunk
- Texas mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common dwarf mongoose
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common dwarf mongoose:
- Parma wallaby with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Northern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Cape ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- African wild dog with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Greater spear-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Common treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12.42 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years