It is hard to guess what a Patagonian weasel weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Patagonian weasel (Lyncodon patagonicus) on average weights 225 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Patagonian weasel is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Lyncodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 32.4 cm (1′ 1″).
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 Patagonian weasel (Lyncodon patagonicus) is a small mustelid that is the only member of the genus Lyncodon. Its geographic range is the Pampas of western Argentina and sections of Chile. An early mention of the animal is in the Journal of Syms Covington, who sailed with Charles Darwin on his epic voyage aboard HMS Beagle.
Animals of the same family as a Patagonian weasel
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- Marine otter bringing 11.2 kilos (24.69 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese marten bringing 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) to the scale
- African striped weasel with a weight of 308 grams
- Least weasel with a weight of 79 grams
- European pine marten bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- American mink with a weight of 904 grams
- Siberian weasel with a weight of 531 grams
- American marten with a weight of 878 grams
- Chinese ferret-badger with a weight of 939 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Patagonian weasel
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lyncodon patagonicus:
- Straw-coloured fruit bat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum bringing 246 grams to the scale
- Japanese squirrel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- Large-eared pika bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Southeastern pocket gopher bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Mottled tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Smoky flying squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Senegal bushbaby bringing 216 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Patagonian weasel
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Patagonian weasel:
- White-faced saki with a size of 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- American marten with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bengal mongoose with a size of 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Brown-tailed mongoose with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Angolan kusimanse with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Northern viscacha with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)