It is hard to guess what a Crab-eating mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva) on average weights 2.38 kg (5.25 lbs).
The Crab-eating mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Herpestes). They can live for up to 13.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 50.8 cm (1′ 8″). Usually, Crab-eating mongooses have 3 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 crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva) is a mongoose species ranging from the northeastern Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to southern China and Taiwan. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Crab-eating mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Slender mongoose with a weight of 530 grams
- Bengal mongoose with a weight of 741 grams
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a weight of 815 grams
- Ruddy mongoose bringing 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs) to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose with a weight of 711 grams
- Meller’s mongoose bringing 2.24 kilos (4.94 lbs) to the scale
- Narrow-striped mongoose with a weight of 664 grams
- Namaqua slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Black-footed mongoose bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan kusimanse with a weight of 700 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Crab-eating mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Herpestes urva:
- Tufted capuchin with a weight of 2.76 kilos (6.08 lbs)
- Kinkajou with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with a weight of 2.52 kilos (5.56 lbs)
- Woolly hare with a weight of 2.47 kilos (5.45 lbs)
- Japanese hare with a weight of 2.53 kilos (5.58 lbs)
- Swift fox with a weight of 2.11 kilos (4.65 lbs)
- Pale fox with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Common brown lemur with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Island fox with a weight of 1.92 kilos (4.23 lbs)
- Equatorial saki with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Crab-eating mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Crab-eating mongoose:
- Red panda with a size of 58.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Egyptian mongoose with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Giant bandicoot with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Venezuelan red howler with a size of 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Menzbier’s marmot with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- African savanna hare with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Kinkajou with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Java mouse-deer with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Crab-eating mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Crab-eating mongoose:
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Hairy-footed gerbil
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Small Indian civet
- Malayan field rat
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
- Juniper vole
- Collared pika
- Long-clawed mole vole
- Slender harvest mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Crab-eating mongoose
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Crab-eating mongoose:
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Rhim gazelle with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Hog badger with an average maximal age of 13.92 years
- Nine-banded armadillo with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Malayan civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with an average maximal age of 10.92 years
- Pronghorn with an average maximal age of 12 years