It is hard to guess what a Otter civet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Otter civet (Cynogale bennettii) on average weights 4.25 kg (9.37 lbs).
The Otter civet is from the family Viverridae (genus: Cynogale). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 62.6 cm (2′ 1″). Usually, Otter 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 otter civet (Cynogale bennettii) is a semiaquatic civet native to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. It is listed as Endangered because of a serious ongoing population decline, estimated to be more than 50% over the past three generations (estimated to be 15 years), inferred from direct habitat destruction, and indirect inferred declines due to pollutants.Cynogale is a monospecific genus.
Animals of the same family as a Otter civet
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Fossa (animal) bringing 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs) to the scale
- Small-toothed palm civet bringing 2.32 kilos (5.11 lbs) to the scale
- Rusty-spotted genet bringing 1.95 kilos (4.3 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan genet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- Sulawesi palm civet bringing 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs) to the scale
- Malabar large-spotted civet bringing 12.08 kilos (26.63 lbs) to the scale
- Brown palm civet bringing 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs) to the scale
- Banded palm civet bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Binturong bringing 13 kilos (28.66 lbs) to the scale
- African civet bringing 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Otter civet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynogale bennettii:
- Unadorned rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.56 kilos (10.05 lbs)
- Fisher (animal) with a weight of 3.75 kilos (8.27 lbs)
- Arctic hare with a weight of 4.42 kilos (9.74 lbs)
- Alpine marmot with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Southern tamandua with a weight of 4.73 kilos (10.43 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Grivet with a weight of 3.86 kilos (8.51 lbs)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- South American coati with a weight of 3.78 kilos (8.33 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Otter civet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Otter civet:
- Ocelot with a size of 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Barbary macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-nosed coati with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pileated gibbon with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Crab-eating fox with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Formosan rock macaque with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Eastern falanouc with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-tailed mongoose with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Otter civet
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Otter civet:
- Sandy inland mouse
- Woodland vole
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Leopard
- Common gundi
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Black-striped squirrel
- Slender rat
- Red-legged sun squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Otter civet
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Otter civet:
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Northern common cuscus with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Forest giant squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.08 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years