It is hard to guess what a Stripe-necked mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Stripe-necked mongoose (Herpestes vitticollis) on average weights 2.38 kg (5.25 lbs).
The Stripe-necked mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Herpestes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 47.8 cm (1′ 7″). Usually, Stripe-necked mongooses 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 stripe-necked mongoose (Herpestes vitticollis) is a mongoose species native to forests and shrublands from southern India to Sri Lanka.
Animals of the same family as a Stripe-necked mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Grandidier’s mongoose bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- Slender mongoose with a weight of 530 grams
- Meerkat with a weight of 730 grams
- Long-nosed mongoose bringing 3 kilos (6.61 lbs) to the scale
- Black-footed mongoose bringing 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs) to the scale
- Meller’s mongoose bringing 2.24 kilos (4.94 lbs) to the scale
- Common dwarf mongoose with a weight of 283 grams
- Selous’s mongoose bringing 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) to the scale
- Jackson’s mongoose bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Cape gray mongoose with a weight of 791 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Stripe-necked mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Herpestes vitticollis:
- Hoary bamboo rat with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Hispid hare with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with a weight of 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs)
- Woolly hare with a weight of 2.47 kilos (5.45 lbs)
- Dryas monkey with a weight of 2.78 kilos (6.13 lbs)
- Subalpine woolly rat with a weight of 1.99 kilos (4.39 lbs)
- Smith’s red rock hare with a weight of 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs)
- Black lemur with a weight of 2.48 kilos (5.47 lbs)
- Corsac fox with a weight of 2.62 kilos (5.78 lbs)
- Natal red rock hare with a weight of 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Stripe-necked mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Stripe-necked mongoose:
- Common opossum with a size of 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Marsh rabbit with a size of 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Banded linsang with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-tailed mongoose with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Formosan rock macaque with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Abyssinian genet with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pale fox with a size of 43 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Stripe-necked mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Stripe-necked mongoose: