It is hard to guess what a Eastern falanouc weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern falanouc (Eupleres goudotii) on average weights 2.78 kg (6.13 lbs).
The Eastern falanouc is from the family Viverridae (genus: Eupleres). It is usually born with about 150 grams (0.33 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 54.9 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Eastern falanoucs have 1 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 eastern falanouc (Eupleres goudotii) is a rare mongoose-like mammal in the carnivoran family Eupleridae endemic to Madagascar .It is classified alongside the western falanouc, Eupleres major, recognized only in 2010, in the genus Eupleres. Falanoucs have several peculiarities. They have no anal or perineal glands (unlike their closest relative, the fanaloka), nonretractile claws, and a unique dentition: the canines and premolars are backwards-curving and flat. This is thought to be related to their prey, mostly invertebrates, such as worms, slugs, snails, and larvae.It lives primarily in the lowland rainforests of eastern Madagascar, while E. major is found in northwest Madagascar. It is solitary and territorial, but whether nocturnal or diurnal is unknown. It is small (about 50 centimetres long with a 24-centimetre-long tail) and shy (clawing, not biting, in self-defence). It most closely resembles the mongooses with its long snout and low body, though its colouration is plain and brown (most mongooses have colouring schemes such as striping, banding, or other variations on the hands and feet).Its life cycle displays periods of fat buildup during April and May, before the dry months of June and July. It has a brief courting period and weaning period, the young being weaned before the next mating season. Its reproductive cycle is fast. The offspring (one per litter) are born in burrows with opened eyes and can move with the mother through dense foliage at only two days old. In nine weeks, the already well-developed young are on solid food and shortly thereafter they leave their mothers. Though it is fast in gaining mobility (so as to follow its mother on forages), it grows at a slower rate than comparatively-sized carnivorans.”Falanoucs are threatened by habitat loss, humans, dogs and an introduced competitor, the small Indian civet (Viverricula indica).”Viverricula Indica are also carnivores, and they had much spatial and temporal overlap with Eupleres Goudotii when introduced to the same ecosystem the Eupleres Goudotii were in. This overlap has shown to potentially have a negative impact on native carnivore populations such as the Eupleres Goudotii because of the two species competing for similar resources.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern falanouc
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Common genet bringing 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) to the scale
- Johnston’s genet bringing 2.23 kilos (4.92 lbs) to the scale
- Banded palm civet bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Small-toothed palm civet bringing 2.32 kilos (5.11 lbs) to the scale
- Golden palm civet bringing 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs) to the scale
- Crested servaline genet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- African civet bringing 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs) to the scale
- Fossa (animal) bringing 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs) to the scale
- Rusty-spotted genet bringing 1.95 kilos (4.3 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted linsang bringing 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern falanouc
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eupleres goudotii:
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with a weight of 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs)
- Common brushtail possum with a weight of 2.69 kilos (5.93 lbs)
- Hamlyn’s monkey with a weight of 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 2.58 kilos (5.69 lbs)
- Margay with a weight of 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs)
- Common brown lemur with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit with a weight of 2.51 kilos (5.53 lbs)
- Sclater’s guenon with a weight of 3.07 kilos (6.77 lbs)
- Smith’s red rock hare with a weight of 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Eastern falanouc
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern falanouc:
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Nilgiri marten with a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Egyptian mongoose with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Mantled guereza with a size of 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Suni with a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Otter civet with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Malayan civet with a size of 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Malayan porcupine with a size of 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern falanouc
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Eastern falanouc: