It is hard to guess what a Sunda stink badger weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis) on average weights 2.5 kg (5.51 lbs).
The Sunda stink badger is from the family Mustelidae (genus: Mydaus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 44.2 cm (1′ 6″).
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 Sunda stink badger (Mydaus javanensis), also called the Javan stink badger, teledu, Malay stink badger, Malay badger, Indonesian stink badger and Sunda skunk, is a mammal native to Indonesia and Malaysia. Despite the common name, stink badgers are not closely related to true badgers, and are, instead, Old World relatives of the skunks.
Animals of the same family as a Sunda stink badger
We found other animals of the Mustelidae family:
- Tayra bringing 4.14 kilos (9.13 lbs) to the scale
- Black-footed ferret with a weight of 907 grams
- American badger bringing 7.84 kilos (17.28 lbs) to the scale
- Hooded skunk bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
- Indonesian mountain weasel with a weight of 466 grams
- African clawless otter bringing 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs) to the scale
- European badger bringing 11.89 kilos (26.21 lbs) to the scale
- Least weasel with a weight of 79 grams
- Burmese ferret-badger bringing 1.85 kilos (4.08 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri marten bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sunda stink badger
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mydaus javanensis:
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with a weight of 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs)
- Kalinowski’s agouti with a weight of 2.65 kilos (5.84 lbs)
- Stripe-necked mongoose with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Equatorial saki with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Common brown lemur with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Yellow-throated marten with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Egyptian mongoose with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Black lemur with a weight of 2.48 kilos (5.47 lbs)
- Red lemur with a weight of 2.39 kilos (5.27 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sunda stink badger
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sunda stink badger:
- Ruddy mongoose with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Long-footed potoroo with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Giant bandicoot with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black crested mangabey with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with a size of 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Yarkand hare with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Granada hare with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Platypus with a size of 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- Short-beaked echidna with a size of 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- European pine marten with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)