It is hard to guess what a Pousargues’s mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pousargues’s mongoose (Dologale dybowskii) on average weights 362 grams (0.8 lbs).
The Pousargues’s mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Dologale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 29 cm (1′ 0″). Usually, Pousargues’s mongooses have 4 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.
Pousargues’s mongoose (Dologale dybowskii), also known as the African tropical savannah mongoose, is a mongoose native to Central Africa. It is listed as data deficient on the IUCN Red List as little is known about its distribution and ecology.Up to the late 20th century, it was known from only around 30 zoological specimens in natural history museum collections.
Animals of the same family as a Pousargues’s mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Short-tailed mongoose bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow mongoose with a weight of 694 grams
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a weight of 815 grams
- Banded mongoose bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose with a weight of 711 grams
- Bushy-tailed mongoose bringing 1.72 kilos (3.79 lbs) to the scale
- Indian grey mongoose bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Meerkat with a weight of 730 grams
- Angolan kusimanse with a weight of 700 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pousargues’s mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dologale dybowskii:
- Common marmoset bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur bringing 326 grams to the scale
- Madagascan fruit bat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Golden bandicoot bringing 425 grams to the scale
- Silvery marmoset bringing 376 grams to the scale
- Striped possum bringing 413 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Vanuatu flying fox bringing 396 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pousargues’s mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pousargues’s mongoose:
- Yellow-bellied weasel with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brown greater galago with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Xerus erythropus with a size of 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Small-toothed sportive lemur with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Abert’s squirrel with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Red-handed tamarin with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Siberian weasel with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mexican fox squirrel with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Arizona gray squirrel with a size of 26.4 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pousargues’s mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Pousargues’s mongoose: