It is hard to guess what a Indonesian mountain weasel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Indonesian mountain weasel (Mustela lutreolina) on average weights 466 grams (1.03 lbs).
The Indonesian mountain weasel is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mustela). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.9 cm (1′ 1″).
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 Indonesian mountain weasel (Mustela lutreolina) is a species of weasel that lives on the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia at elevations over 1,000 metres (3,280 ft). They live in mountainous, tropical, and rainforest areas. Indonesian mountain weasels have a body length of 11–12 inches and a tail length of 5–6 inches. They are reddish-brown in color.The Indonesian mountain weasel is endangered due to hunting, fur trade, and destruction of habitat. There are no recognized subspecies of the Indonesian mountain weasel.
Animals of the same family as a Indonesian mountain weasel
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Hairy-nosed otter bringing 5.97 kilos (13.16 lbs) to the scale
- American hog-nosed skunk bringing 2.58 kilos (5.69 lbs) to the scale
- European polecat with a weight of 980 grams
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 960 grams
- European mink with a weight of 567 grams
- Colombian weasel with a weight of 211 grams
- Beech marten bringing 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) to the scale
- European pine marten bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat with a weight of 218 grams
- Bornean ferret-badger with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Indonesian mountain weasel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mustela lutreolina:
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- King rat (animal) bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Mountain giant Sunda rat bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Small flying fox bringing 434 grams to the scale
- Cotton-top tamarin bringing 463 grams to the scale
- Brazilian guinea pig bringing 524 grams to the scale
- Brown-mantled tamarin bringing 393 grams to the scale
- Namaqua dune mole-rat bringing 389 grams to the scale
- Seychelles fruit bat bringing 491 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Indonesian mountain weasel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Indonesian mountain weasel:
- Angolan kusimanse with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Variegated squirrel with a size of 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Tapeti with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tailless tenrec with a size of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Western barred bandicoot with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Common echymipera with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Solomons flying fox with a size of 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- Patagonian weasel with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a size of 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Common degu with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)