It is hard to guess what a Malayan weasel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Malayan weasel (Mustela nudipes) on average weights 569 grams (1.25 lbs).
The Malayan weasel is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mustela). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 32.6 cm (1′ 1″). Usually, Malayan weasels have 4 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 weasel (Mustela nudipes) or Malay weasel is a weasel species native to the Thai-Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Malayan weasel
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Bornean ferret-badger with 2 babies per litter
- Hairy-nosed otter bringing 5.97 kilos (13.16 lbs) to the scale
- Steppe polecat bringing 1.69 kilos (3.73 lbs) to the scale
- Honey badger bringing 9 kilos (19.84 lbs) to the scale
- European pine marten bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Marbled polecat with a weight of 594 grams
- Siberian weasel with a weight of 531 grams
- Hooded skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- Pygmy spotted skunk with a weight of 365 grams
- Lesser grison bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan weasel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mustela nudipes:
- Painted ringtail possum bringing 639 grams to the scale
- White-faced spiny tree-rat bringing 610 grams to the scale
- Striped bandicoot bringing 542 grams to the scale
- Spermophilus relictus bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel bringing 675 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu flying fox bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Atlantic bamboo rat bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Variegated squirrel bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Cotton-top tamarin bringing 463 grams to the scale
- Broad-faced potoroo bringing 499 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Malayan weasel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Malayan weasel:
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Painted ringtail possum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with a size of 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Western white-eared giant rat with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Crowned lemur with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a size of 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-bellied titi with a size of 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Malayan weasel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Malayan weasel: