It is hard to guess what a Owston’s palm civet weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Owston’s palm civet (Chrotogale owstoni) on average weights 3.27 kg (7.21 lbs).
The Owston’s palm civet is from the family Viverridae (genus: Chrotogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 57.2 cm (1′ 11″).
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.
Owston’s palm civet (Chrotogale owstoni) is a civet native to Vietnam, Laos and southern China. It is listed as Endangered by IUCN because of an ongoing population decline, estimated to be more than 50% over the last three generations, inferred from over-exploitation, habitat destruction and degradation.Chrotogale is a monospecific genus. Owston’s palm civet is named after the wildlife collector Alan Owston.
Animals of the same family as a Owston’s palm civet
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Large Indian civet bringing 9.15 kilos (20.17 lbs) to the scale
- Crested servaline genet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- Asian palm civet bringing 3.2 kilos (7.05 lbs) to the scale
- Brown palm civet bringing 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs) to the scale
- Small-toothed palm civet bringing 2.32 kilos (5.11 lbs) to the scale
- Hose’s palm civet with a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet bringing 12.08 kilos (26.63 lbs) to the scale
- Malagasy civet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- Angolan genet bringing 1.86 kilos (4.1 lbs) to the scale
- Central African oyan with a weight of 570 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Owston’s palm civet
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chrotogale owstoni:
- Bay cat with a weight of 3.43 kilos (7.56 lbs)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a weight of 2.77 kilos (6.11 lbs)
- Orinoco agouti with a weight of 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs)
- Gray fox with a weight of 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs)
- White-nosed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a weight of 3.4 kilos (7.5 lbs)
- Golden-backed uakari with a weight of 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti with a weight of 2.9 kilos (6.39 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with a weight of 2.81 kilos (6.19 lbs)
- Kalinowski’s agouti with a weight of 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Owston’s palm civet
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Owston’s palm civet:
- Capped langur with a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Mona monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Patas monkey with a size of 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Barbary macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Golden-crowned sifaka with a size of 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Vancouver Island marmot with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Lowland paca with a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- North American river otter with a size of 68.5 cm (2′ 3″)