It is hard to guess what a Hooded skunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hooded skunk (Mephitis macroura) on average weights 1.1 kg (2.42 lbs).
The Hooded skunk is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mephitis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.8 cm (1′ 1″). Usually, Hooded skunks have 4 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 hooded skunk (Mephitis macroura) is a species of mammal in the family Mephitidae. Mephītis in Latin means “foul odor”, μακρός (makrós) in Greek translates to “long” and οὐρά (ourá) translates to “tail”.
Animals of the same family as a Hooded skunk
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Smooth-coated otter bringing 8.96 kilos (19.75 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted-necked otter bringing 4.18 kilos (9.22 lbs) to the scale
- Asian small-clawed otter bringing 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) to the scale
- Lesser grison bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- Honey badger bringing 9 kilos (19.84 lbs) to the scale
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- Hog badger bringing 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs) to the scale
- Striped polecat with a weight of 812 grams
- Malayan weasel with a weight of 569 grams
- Long-tailed weasel with a weight of 191 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hooded skunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mephitis macroura:
- Bristle-spined rat with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
- Mexican prairie dog bringing 900 grams to the scale
- Greater bilby with a weight of 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs)
- Water opossum bringing 977 grams to the scale
- Banded palm civet with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Ring-tailed cat with a weight of 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs)
- Bengal slow loris with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Long-nosed potoroo with a weight of 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs)
- Collared titi with a weight of 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs)
- Eastern quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hooded skunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hooded skunk:
- Rufous elephant shrew with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a size of 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cuban solenodon with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Common kusimanse with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Common echymipera with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Yellow-bellied weasel with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-footed tree-rat with a size of 30.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- European mink with a size of 36.1 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hooded skunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Hooded skunk: