It is hard to guess what a Spotted-necked otter weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spotted-necked otter (Hydrictis maculicollis) on average weights 4.18 kg (9.22 lbs).
The Spotted-necked otter is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Hydrictis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 59.4 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Spotted-necked otters 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 spotted-necked otter (Hydrictis maculicollis), or speckle-throated otter, is an otter native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Spotted-necked otter
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- American badger bringing 7.84 kilos (17.28 lbs) to the scale
- Eurasian otter bringing 8.86 kilos (19.53 lbs) to the scale
- Cameroon clawless otter bringing 21.6 kilos (47.62 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri marten bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- Smooth-coated otter bringing 8.96 kilos (19.75 lbs) to the scale
- Sea otter bringing 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted-necked otter bringing 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs) to the scale
- Saharan striped polecat with a weight of 218 grams
- Amazon weasel with a weight of 268 grams
- European pine marten bringing 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Spotted-necked otter
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hydrictis maculicollis:
- South American coati with a weight of 3.78 kilos (8.33 lbs)
- Hoary fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Moustached guenon with a weight of 3.44 kilos (7.58 lbs)
- Godman’s rock-wallaby with a weight of 4.75 kilos (10.47 lbs)
- White-nosed coati with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
- Bald uakari with a weight of 3.42 kilos (7.54 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
- Gray fox with a weight of 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs)
- Campbell’s mona monkey with a weight of 3.63 kilos (8 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Spotted-necked otter
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Spotted-necked otter:
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a size of 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pampas fox with a size of 62.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Arctic fox with a size of 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- De Brazza’s monkey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a size of 59.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- White-sided jackrabbit with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Black-footed mongoose with a size of 61.3 cm (2′ 1″)
- Hoolock gibbon with a size of 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Kinkajou with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pig-tailed langur with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Spotted-necked otter
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Spotted-necked otter: