It is hard to guess what a Saharan striped polecat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Saharan striped polecat (Ictonyx libyca) on average weights 218 grams (0.48 lbs).
The Saharan striped polecat is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Ictonyx). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 24.2 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Saharan striped polecats 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 Saharan striped polecat, also known as the Saharan striped weasel, Libyan striped weasel, and the North African striped weasel (Ictonyx libycus) is a species of mammal in the family Mustelidae. This animal is sometimes characterized as being a part of the genus Poecilictis, and its coloration resembles that of the striped polecat.
Animals of the same family as a Saharan striped polecat
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Hairy-nosed otter bringing 5.97 kilos (13.16 lbs) to the scale
- Stoat with a weight of 284 grams
- Wolverine bringing 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs) to the scale
- Striped hog-nosed skunk bringing 2.01 kilos (4.43 lbs) to the scale
- Patagonian weasel with a weight of 225 grams
- Burmese ferret-badger bringing 1.85 kilos (4.08 lbs) to the scale
- Cameroon clawless otter bringing 21.6 kilos (47.62 lbs) to the scale
- American mink with a weight of 904 grams
- Mountain weasel with a weight of 180 grams
- Eastern spotted skunk with a weight of 568 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Saharan striped polecat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ictonyx libyca:
- Mohave ground squirrel bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s pocket gopher bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked rope squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed spiny rat bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Tate’s triok bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Pteropus brunneus bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Saharan striped polecat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Saharan striped polecat:
- Florida naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Striped possum with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Northern glider with a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Sardinian pika with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Yucatan squirrel with a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black-shouldered opossum with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Saharan striped polecat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Saharan striped polecat:
- Brazilian guinea pig
- Clouded leopard
- Horsfield’s treeshrew
- Maned wolf
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
- Mountain beaver
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Temminck’s striped mouse
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Smith’s bush squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Saharan striped polecat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Saharan striped polecat:
- Uinta ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Sandhill dunnart with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Greater bulldog bat with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- White-bellied duiker with an average maximal age of 5.25 years
- Northern birch mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Central African oyan with an average maximal age of 5.33 years