It is hard to guess what a Palawan stink badger weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Palawan stink badger (Mydaus marchei) on average weights 2.5 kg (5.51 lbs).
The Palawan stink badger is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mydaus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 39 cm (1′ 4″).
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 Palawan stink badger (Mydaus marchei), or pantot, is a carnivoran of the western Philippines named for its resemblance to badgers, its powerful smell, and the largest island to which it is native, Palawan. Like all stink badgers, the Palawan stink badger was once thought to share a more recent common ancestor with badgers than with skunks. Recent genetic evidence, however, has led to their re-classification as one of the Mephitidae, the skunk family of mammals. It is the size of a large skunk or small badger, and uses its badger-like body to dig by night for invertebrates in open areas near patches of brush. While it lacks the whitish dorsal patches typical of its closest relatives, predators and hunters generally avoid the powerful noxious chemicals it can spray from the specialized anal glands characteristic of mephitids.
Animals of the same family as a Palawan stink badger
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Sable bringing 1.17 kilos (2.58 lbs) to the scale
- Hog badger bringing 8.17 kilos (18.01 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri marten bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- Asian small-clawed otter bringing 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs) to the scale
- American badger bringing 7.84 kilos (17.28 lbs) to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat with a weight of 218 grams
- Mountain weasel with a weight of 180 grams
- American mink with a weight of 904 grams
- Striped hog-nosed skunk bringing 2.01 kilos (4.43 lbs) to the scale
- Steppe polecat bringing 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Palawan stink badger
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mydaus marchei:
- Monk saki with a weight of 2.11 kilos (4.65 lbs)
- Woolly hare with a weight of 2.47 kilos (5.45 lbs)
- Rio Tapajós saki with a weight of 2.31 kilos (5.09 lbs)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Cozumel raccoon with a weight of 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax with a weight of 2.71 kilos (5.97 lbs)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a weight of 2.77 kilos (6.11 lbs)
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha with a weight of 2.68 kilos (5.91 lbs)
- Aye-aye with a weight of 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs)
- Sand cat with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Palawan stink badger
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Palawan stink badger:
- Northern common cuscus with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black-headed night monkey with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Mexican cottontail with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Banded linsang with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with a size of 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Steppe polecat with a size of 43.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Subalpine woolly rat with a size of 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with a size of 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tufted ground squirrel with a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)