It is hard to guess what a Hairy-nosed otter weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) on average weights 5.97 kg (13.16 lbs).
The Hairy-nosed otter is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Lutra). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 76.5 cm (2′ 7″).
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 hairy-nosed otter (Lutra sumatrana) is a semiaquatic mammal endemic to Southeast Asia and one of the rarest and least known otter species. It is threatened by loss of natural resources and poaching.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy-nosed otter
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Neotropical otter bringing 6.55 kilos (14.44 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern spotted skunk with a weight of 568 grams
- Striped polecat with a weight of 812 grams
- American marten with a weight of 878 grams
- Yellow-throated marten bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Eurasian otter bringing 8.86 kilos (19.53 lbs) to the scale
- Tayra bringing 4.14 kilos (9.13 lbs) to the scale
- African clawless otter bringing 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs) to the scale
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- Long-tailed weasel with a weight of 191 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-nosed otter
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lutra sumatrana:
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
- Bonnet macaque with a weight of 5 kilos (11.02 lbs)
- South American gray fox with a weight of 6.34 kilos (13.98 lbs)
- Thomas’s langur with a weight of 6.69 kilos (14.75 lbs)
- Alaskan hare with a weight of 4.85 kilos (10.69 lbs)
- Pileated gibbon with a weight of 5.57 kilos (12.28 lbs)
- Agile mangabey with a weight of 7.11 kilos (15.67 lbs)
- Brown’s pademelon with a weight of 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs)
- Tibetan sand fox with a weight of 5.54 kilos (12.21 lbs)
- Agile gibbon with a weight of 5.85 kilos (12.9 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-nosed otter
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hairy-nosed otter:
- Canada lynx with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Large Indian civet with a size of 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Smooth-coated otter with a size of 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Black-footed gray langur with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Western long-beaked echidna with a size of 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Fossa (animal) with a size of 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Bush dog with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Jaguarundi with a size of 70.4 cm (2′ 4″)