It is hard to guess what a Malayan civet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Malayan civet (Viverra tangalunga) on average weights 7.35 kg (16.2 lbs).
The Malayan civet is from the family Viverridae (genus: Viverra). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 65.7 cm (2′ 2″). Usually, Malayan civets have 1 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 Malayan civet (Viverra tangalunga), also known as the Malay civet and Oriental civet, is a viverrid native to the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo, the Riau Archipelago, and the Philippines. It is listed as “Least Concern” by IUCN as it is a relatively widely distributed, appears to be tolerant of degraded habitats, and occurs in a number of protected areas.
Animals of the same family as a Malayan civet
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Binturong bringing 13 kilos (28.66 lbs) to the scale
- Central African oyan with a weight of 570 grams
- Aquatic genet bringing 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs) to the scale
- Fossa (animal) bringing 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs) to the scale
- Abyssinian genet bringing 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs) to the scale
- Asian palm civet bringing 3.2 kilos (7.05 lbs) to the scale
- Sulawesi palm civet bringing 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs) to the scale
- Aquatic genet bringing 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern falanouc bringing 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs) to the scale
- Banded linsang with a weight of 684 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan civet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Viverra tangalunga:
- Bush dog with a weight of 6.32 kilos (13.93 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler with a weight of 7.19 kilos (15.85 lbs)
- Dusky leaf monkey with a weight of 7.18 kilos (15.83 lbs)
- Western red colobus with a weight of 8.43 kilos (18.58 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey with a weight of 8.27 kilos (18.23 lbs)
- Mantled howler with a weight of 6.58 kilos (14.51 lbs)
- American badger with a weight of 7.84 kilos (17.28 lbs)
- Jaguarundi with a weight of 6.88 kilos (15.17 lbs)
- Mentawai langur with a weight of 6.45 kilos (14.22 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Malayan civet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Malayan civet:
- Southern tamandua with a size of 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Black-backed jackal with a size of 70.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Mantled guereza with a size of 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Silvery gibbon with a size of 67.6 cm (2′ 3″)
- Delacour’s langur with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Hairy-nosed otter with a size of 76.5 cm (2′ 7″)
- Celebes crested macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Malayan civet
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Malayan civet:
- Speke’s gazelle
- New Caledonia blossom bat
- Tree pangolin
- Brazilian brown bat
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Variegated butterfly bat
- White-bellied yellow bat
- Galápagos fur seal
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Malayan civet
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Malayan civet:
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Greater false vampire bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Least weasel with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Side-striped jackal with an average maximal age of 11.42 years
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.42 years
- Long-tailed goral with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- Rock cavy with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Javan warty pig with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years