It is hard to guess what a Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus humboldtii) on average weights 1.1 kg (2.42 lbs).
The Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Conepatus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.4 cm (1′ 2″). Usually, Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunks 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.
Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus humboldtii), also known as the Patagonian hog-nosed skunk, is a type of hog-nosed skunk indigenous to the open grassy areas in the Patagonian regions of South Argentina and Chile. It belongs to the order Carnivora and the family Mephitidae.
Animals of the same family as a Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Mountain weasel with a weight of 180 grams
- North American river otter bringing 8.09 kilos (17.84 lbs) to the scale
- Southern river otter bringing 7.5 kilos (16.53 lbs) to the scale
- American hog-nosed skunk bringing 2.58 kilos (5.69 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted-necked otter bringing 4.18 kilos (9.22 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese ferret-badger with a weight of 939 grams
- Least weasel with a weight of 79 grams
- Saharan striped polecat with a weight of 218 grams
- Stoat with a weight of 284 grams
- Greater grison bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Conepatus humboldtii:
- Azara’s night monkey bringing 929 grams to the scale
- Hispaniolan solenodon bringing 893 grams to the scale
- European pine marten with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs)
- Gambian pouched rat with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Montane guinea pig with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs)
- Northern viscacha with a weight of 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk:
- Lesser grison with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with a size of 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Hooded skunk with a size of 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with a size of 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Bahamian hutia with a size of 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Groundhog with a size of 41.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk: