It is hard to guess what a Javan mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) on average weights 758 grams (1.67 lbs).
The Javan mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Herpestes). It is usually born with about 24 grams (0.05 lbs). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 27.5 cm (0′ 11″). On average, Javan mongooses can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 Javan mongoose (Herpestes javanicus) or small Indian mongoose is a mongoose species native to South and Southeast Asia that has also been introduced to many regions of the world.
Animals of the same family as a Javan mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Angolan slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Black-footed mongoose bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
- Selous’s mongoose bringing 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) to the scale
- Meerkat with a weight of 730 grams
- White-tailed mongoose bringing 3.66 kilos (8.07 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Bengal mongoose with a weight of 741 grams
- Bushy-tailed mongoose bringing 1.72 kilos (3.79 lbs) to the scale
- Common kusimanse bringing 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow mongoose with a weight of 694 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Javan mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Herpestes javanicus:
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 665 grams to the scale
- Mountain cottontail bringing 803 grams to the scale
- Giant white-tailed rat bringing 644 grams to the scale
- Angolan slender mongoose bringing 750 grams to the scale
- Eastern white-eared giant rat bringing 867 grams to the scale
- Raffray’s bandicoot bringing 905 grams to the scale
- Moluccan flying fox bringing 728 grams to the scale
- Hispaniolan solenodon bringing 893 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed ground squirrel bringing 743 grams to the scale
- Southern brown bandicoot bringing 825 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Javan mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Javan mongoose:
- White-footed rabbit-rat with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Red slender loris with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Grey-headed flying fox with a size of 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Lutrine opossum with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-fingered triok with a size of 23.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Peters’s squirrel with a size of 26.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Podogymnura truei with a size of 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Javan mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Javan mongoose:
- Nilgiri striped squirrel
- Greater mole-rat
- Eurasian beaver
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Maned wolf
- Mexican deer mouse
- Western gray squirrel
- Radde’s shrew
- Northern pygmy mouse
- Murree vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Javan mongoose
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Javan mongoose:
- Red-necked pademelon with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Water deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Eastern cottontail with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Whiskered bat with an average maximal age of 9.25 years
- Taruca with an average maximal age of 10.58 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Arabian gazelle with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Black giant squirrel with an average maximal age of 10.08 years