It is hard to guess what a Slender mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea) on average weights 530 grams (1.17 lbs).
The Slender mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Galerella). They can live for up to 6 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 33 cm (1′ 1″). On average, Slender mongooses can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea), also known as the black-tipped mongoose or the black-tailed mongoose, is a very common species of mongoose of sub-Saharan Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Slender mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Namaqua slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Bengal mongoose with a weight of 741 grams
- Indian grey mongoose bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
- Gambian mongoose bringing 1.64 kilos (3.62 lbs) to the scale
- Selous’s mongoose bringing 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) to the scale
- Bushy-tailed mongoose bringing 1.72 kilos (3.79 lbs) to the scale
- Egyptian mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a weight of 815 grams
- Long-nosed mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Narrow-striped mongoose with a weight of 664 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Slender mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galerella sanguinea:
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose bringing 550 grams to the scale
- Allen’s squirrel bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Giant pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Marbled polecat bringing 594 grams to the scale
- Variegated squirrel bringing 485 grams to the scale
- Mexican gray squirrel bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Bolivian tuco-tuco bringing 462 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu flying fox bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Eastern spotted skunk bringing 568 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Slender mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Slender mongoose:
- Brush rabbit with a size of 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Meerkat with a size of 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Arctic ground squirrel with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Atlantic titi with a size of 36.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-handed tamarin with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hispaniolan solenodon with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black giant squirrel with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Slender mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Slender mongoose:
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- Congo rope squirrel
- Eastern common cuscus
- Black-shouldered opossum
- Florida mouse
- Honey badger
- Cape fox
- Blanford’s fox
- Cairo spiny mouse
- Eastern rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Slender mongoose
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Slender mongoose:
- Moonrat with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Central African oyan with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Feathertail glider with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Greater grison with an average maximal age of 5.25 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Stoat with an average maximal age of 7.08 years