It is hard to guess what a Stoat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Stoat (Mustela erminea) on average weights 284 grams (0.63 lbs).
The Stoat is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mustela). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 7.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 21.6 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Stoats have 6 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 stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the ermine, is a mustelid native to Eurasia and North America. Because of its wide circumpolar distribution, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.The name ermine is used for species in the genus Mustela, especially the stoat, in its pure white winter coat, or the fur thereof.In the late 19th century, it was introduced into New Zealand to control rabbits, where they have had a devastating effect on native bird populations. It was nominated as one of the world’s top 100 “worst invaders”.Ermine luxury fur was used in the 15th century by Catholic monarchs, who sometimes used it as the mozzetta cape. It was also used in capes on images such as the Infant Jesus of Prague.
Animals of the same family as a Stoat
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Steppe polecat bringing 1.69 kilos (3.73 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted-necked otter bringing 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs) to the scale
- North American river otter bringing 8.09 kilos (17.84 lbs) to the scale
- Patagonian weasel with a weight of 225 grams
- Striped skunk bringing 2.4 kilos (5.29 lbs) to the scale
- European mink with a weight of 567 grams
- Chinese ferret-badger with a weight of 939 grams
- Greater grison bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Least weasel with a weight of 79 grams
- Saharan striped polecat with a weight of 218 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Stoat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mustela erminea:
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 302 grams to the scale
- Common dwarf mongoose bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Napo spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 248 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 266 grams to the scale
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Golden-backed tree-rat bringing 294 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Stoat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Stoat:
- Smoky flying squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Eastern gray squirrel with a size of 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Mexican woodrat with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Magellanic tuco-tuco with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-tailed weasel with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-throated woodrat with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Stoat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Stoat:
- Flat-haired mouse
- Seven-banded armadillo
- Harris’s antelope squirrel
- Round-tailed ground squirrel
- Steppe mouse
- Siberian weasel
- Northern quoll
- Common shrew
- North American brown lemming
- Uinta chipmunk
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Stoat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Stoat:
- House mouse with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Xerus erythropus with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Tailless tenrec with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Collared pika with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Northern bettong with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Florida mouse with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Eastern mole with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Tasmanian devil with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years