It is hard to guess what a Large Indian civet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) on average weights 9.15 kg (20.17 lbs).
The Large Indian civet is from the family Viverridae (genus: Viverra). They can live for up to 20 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 81.9 cm (2′ 9″). Usually, Large Indian civets have 2 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 large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. The global population is considered decreasing mainly because of trapping-driven declines in heavily hunted and fragmented areas, notably in China, and the heavy trade as wild meat.
Animals of the same family as a Large Indian civet
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Central African oyan with a weight of 570 grams
- Aquatic genet bringing 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs) to the scale
- Banded palm civet bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Owston’s palm civet bringing 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs) to the scale
- Otter civet bringing 4.25 kilos (9.37 lbs) to the scale
- Abyssinian genet bringing 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs) to the scale
- Johnston’s genet bringing 2.23 kilos (4.92 lbs) to the scale
- Small Indian civet bringing 2.95 kilos (6.5 lbs) to the scale
- African civet bringing 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs) to the scale
- Brown palm civet bringing 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Large Indian civet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Viverra zibetha:
- Pudú with a weight of 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.09 kilos (20.04 lbs)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.98 kilos (19.8 lbs)
- Asian golden cat with a weight of 7.73 kilos (17.04 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.27 kilos (18.23 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.44 kilos (18.61 lbs)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat with a weight of 8.13 kilos (17.92 lbs)
- Tana River red colobus with a weight of 8.07 kilos (17.79 lbs)
- Red-faced spider monkey with a weight of 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Large Indian civet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Large Indian civet:
- Buru babirusa with a size of 95 cm (3′ 2″)
- North American porcupine with a size of 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Klipspringer with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- African wild dog with a size of 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72.4 cm (2′ 5″)
- Coyote with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Fossa (animal) with a size of 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Black musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Drill (animal) with a size of 70 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Large Indian civet
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Large Indian civet:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Golden mouse
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy
- American shrew mole
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
- Gambian sun squirrel
- Cape genet
- Van Deusen’s rat
- Sandy inland mouse
- Spiny pocket mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Large Indian civet
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Large Indian civet:
- Red giant flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Reindeer with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Roan antelope with an average maximal age of 20 years
- North American porcupine with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Northern elephant seal with an average maximal age of 20.25 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Ocelot with an average maximal age of 20.25 years
- Coyote with an average maximal age of 21.83 years
- Hector’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Brown hyena with an average maximal age of 17 years