It is hard to guess what a Side-striped jackal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Side-striped jackal (Canis adustus) on average weights 10.4 kg (22.92 lbs).
The Side-striped jackal is from the family Canidae (genus: Canis). They can live for up to 11.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 74.7 cm (2′ 6″). Usually, Side-striped jackals 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.
The side-striped jackal (Canis adustus or Lupulella adusta) is a canine native to Central and southern Africa. Unlike the smaller black-backed jackal which dwells in open plains, the side-striped jackal primarily dwells in woodland and scrub areas.
Animals of the same family as a Side-striped jackal
We found other animals of the Canidae family:
- Island fox bringing 1.92 kilos (4.23 lbs) to the scale
- Bat-eared fox bringing 4.07 kilos (8.97 lbs) to the scale
- Red fox bringing 4.83 kilos (10.65 lbs) to the scale
- Sechuran fox bringing 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) to the scale
- Bush dog bringing 6.32 kilos (13.93 lbs) to the scale
- Sechuran fox bringing 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs) to the scale
- Raccoon dog bringing 4.22 kilos (9.3 lbs) to the scale
- African wild dog bringing 22 kilos (48.5 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan sand fox bringing 5.54 kilos (12.21 lbs) to the scale
- Rüppell’s fox bringing 3.25 kilos (7.17 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Side-striped jackal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Canis adustus:
- Western long-beaked echidna with a weight of 8.95 kilos (19.73 lbs)
- Red forest duiker with a weight of 12.36 kilos (27.25 lbs)
- Black colobus with a weight of 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus with a weight of 9.16 kilos (20.19 lbs)
- Beira (antelope) with a weight of 10.91 kilos (24.05 lbs)
- Honey badger with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
- Culpeo with a weight of 8.62 kilos (19 lbs)
- Steenbok with a weight of 11.64 kilos (25.66 lbs)
- Tenkile with a weight of 9.98 kilos (22 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque with a weight of 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Side-striped jackal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Side-striped jackal:
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
- Binturong with a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Red fox with a size of 62.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72.4 cm (2′ 5″)
- Crab-eating raccoon with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Malayan civet with a size of 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Gray dorcopsis with a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Aders’s duiker with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Side-striped jackal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Side-striped jackal:
- Silky mouse
- Hooded skunk
- Barbary striped grass mouse
- Large New Guinea spiny rat
- Lesser capybara
- Greater stripe-backed shrew
- New Holland mouse
- Indian bush rat
- Utah prairie dog
- White-tailed jackrabbit
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Side-striped jackal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Side-striped jackal:
- Muskrat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Southern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Blue duiker with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Speke’s pectinator with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Speke’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Harnessed bushbuck with an average maximal age of 13 years
- European mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Grey rhebok with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Short-eared dog with an average maximal age of 11 years