It is hard to guess what a Short-tailed mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Short-tailed mongoose (Herpestes brachyurus) on average weights 1.4 kg (3.08 lbs).
The Short-tailed mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Herpestes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 41.5 cm (1′ 5″). Usually, Short-tailed mongooses have 3 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 short-tailed mongoose (Herpestes brachyurus) is a mongoose species native to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. It inhabits evergreen forest and rural gardens from sea level to an elevation of 1,500 m (4,900 ft). It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List since 2008.It was first described by John Edward Gray in 1837.It is red-brown to black and has black limbs. The head is grayish with a black spot on the chin. Its total body length is 60–65 cm (24–26 in) including a 25 cm (9.8 in) short tail. It weighs about 1.4 kg (3.1 lb).
Animals of the same family as a Short-tailed mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Meller’s mongoose bringing 2.24 kilos (4.94 lbs) to the scale
- Bengal mongoose with a weight of 741 grams
- Ruddy mongoose bringing 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs) to the scale
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a weight of 550 grams
- Yellow mongoose with a weight of 694 grams
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a weight of 815 grams
- Alexander’s kusimanse bringing 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) to the scale
- Egyptian mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed mongoose bringing 3.66 kilos (8.07 lbs) to the scale
- Javan mongoose with a weight of 758 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Short-tailed mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Herpestes brachyurus:
- Bengal slow loris with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Gambian pouched rat with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Aquatic genet with a weight of 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs)
- White-faced saki with a weight of 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs)
- Tolai hare with a weight of 1.59 kilos (3.51 lbs)
- Chinese hare with a weight of 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs)
- Eastern bettong with a weight of 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs)
- Beech marten with a weight of 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Eastern cottontail with a weight of 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Short-tailed mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Short-tailed mongoose:
- Beech marten with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Greater bilby with a size of 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Nine-banded armadillo with a size of 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Omilteme cottontail with a size of 39.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Banded palm civet with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Chinese pangolin with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with a size of 44.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tres Marias rabbit with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Malagasy civet with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Greater bamboo lemur with a size of 37 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Short-tailed mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Short-tailed mongoose: