It is hard to guess what a Mountain weasel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain weasel (Mustela altaica) on average weights 180 grams (0.4 lbs).
The Mountain weasel is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mustela). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.4 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Mountain weasels have 5 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 mountain weasel (Mustela altaica), also known as the pale weasel, Altai weasel or solongoi, primarily lives in high-altitude environments, as well as rocky tundra and grassy woodlands.This weasel rests in rock crevices, tree trunks, and abandoned burrows of other animals or the animals it previously hunted. The home range size of this animal is currently unknown. Geographical distribution for this species lies in parts of Asia from Kazakhstan, Tibet, and the Himalayas to Mongolia, northeastern China, and southern Siberia. The most common area for this species, however, is Ladakh, India. The conservation status, according to the IUCN, is near threatened because it is considered to be in significant decline and requires monitoring mainly because of habitat and resource loss.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain weasel
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Wolverine bringing 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs) to the scale
- American marten with a weight of 878 grams
- Colombian weasel with a weight of 211 grams
- Palawan stink badger bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- European polecat with a weight of 980 grams
- Neotropical otter bringing 6.55 kilos (14.44 lbs) to the scale
- Fisher (animal) bringing 3.75 kilos (8.27 lbs) to the scale
- Siberian weasel with a weight of 531 grams
- Least weasel with a weight of 79 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain weasel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mustela altaica:
- Goldman’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed spiny rat bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Dusky bushbaby bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Three-striped ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Mohave ground squirrel bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel bringing 201 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mountain weasel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain weasel:
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- White-footed tamarin with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Plantain squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Rock squirrel with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Sardinian pika with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- European ground squirrel with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hagen’s flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with a size of 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain weasel
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Mountain weasel: