It is hard to guess what a Greater grison weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater grison (Galictis vittata) on average weights 1.4 kg (3.08 lbs).
The Greater grison is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Galictis). They can live for up to 5.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.7 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Greater grisons 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 greater grison (Galictis vittata), is a species of mustelid native to Southern Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Animals of the same family as a Greater grison
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Saharan striped polecat with a weight of 218 grams
- Hairy-nosed otter bringing 5.97 kilos (13.16 lbs) to the scale
- Wolverine bringing 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs) to the scale
- Hooded skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- Sea otter bringing 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted-necked otter bringing 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs) to the scale
- Colombian weasel with a weight of 211 grams
- Japanese marten bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- Siberian weasel with a weight of 531 grams
- Mountain weasel with a weight of 180 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater grison
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galictis vittata:
- Philippine flying lemur with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Telefomin cuscus with a weight of 1.44 kilos (3.17 lbs)
- Servaline genet with a weight of 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs)
- Monjon with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Seven-banded armadillo with a weight of 1.53 kilos (3.37 lbs)
- Hainan hare with a weight of 1.52 kilos (3.35 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus with a weight of 1.63 kilos (3.59 lbs)
- White-faced saki with a weight of 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs)
- Common opossum with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Greater grison
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater grison:
- Peters’s squirrel with a size of 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bushy-tailed woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Allen’s squirrel with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Pallas’s squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- North African hedgehog with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater grison
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Greater grison:
- Whiptail wallaby
- Sooty mangabey
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
- Common noctule
- Moose
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Western grey kangaroo
- Ogilby’s duiker
- Pallid bat
- Bushy-tailed mongoose
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater grison
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater grison:
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Western quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bunny rat with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Forest giant squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.08 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Least chipmunk with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- Tiger quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Coruro with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years