It is hard to guess what a Long-nosed mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-nosed mongoose (Herpestes naso) on average weights 3 kg (6.62 lbs).
The Long-nosed mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Herpestes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 55.4 cm (1′ 10″).
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 long-nosed mongoose (Herpestes naso) is a mongoose native to Central African wetlands and rainforests. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 1996.
Animals of the same family as a Long-nosed mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Brown-tailed mongoose with a weight of 711 grams
- Narrow-striped mongoose with a weight of 664 grams
- Grandidier’s mongoose bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Pousargues’s mongoose with a weight of 362 grams
- Yellow mongoose with a weight of 694 grams
- Banded mongoose bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Marsh mongoose bringing 3.6 kilos (7.94 lbs) to the scale
- Common kusimanse bringing 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan kusimanse with a weight of 700 grams
- Meerkat with a weight of 730 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Herpestes naso:
- Wolf’s mona monkey with a weight of 3.26 kilos (7.19 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Short-eared possum with a weight of 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs)
- Sclater’s guenon with a weight of 3.07 kilos (6.77 lbs)
- Kodkod with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with a weight of 2.81 kilos (6.19 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti with a weight of 2.9 kilos (6.39 lbs)
- Ground cuscus with a weight of 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs)
- Quokka with a weight of 3.03 kilos (6.68 lbs)
- Mexican cottontail with a weight of 2.49 kilos (5.49 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-nosed mongoose:
- Arabian gazelle with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Hoolock gibbon with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Stripe-necked mongoose with a size of 47.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Campbell’s mona monkey with a size of 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tres Marias raccoon with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Gray fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Lion-tailed macaque with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Proboscis monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Pallas’s cat with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)