It is hard to guess what a Yellow mongoose weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata) on average weights 694 grams (1.53 lbs).
The Yellow mongoose is from the family Herpestidae (genus: Cynictis). They can live for up to 15.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 29.2 cm (1′ 0″). Usually, Yellow 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 yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata), sometimes referred to as the red meerkat, is a member of the mongoose family. It averages about 1 lb (1/2 kg) in weight and about 20 in (500 mm) in length. It lives in open country, from semi-desert scrubland to grasslands in Angola, Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, and Zimbabwe.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow mongoose
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Narrow-striped mongoose with a weight of 664 grams
- Stripe-necked mongoose bringing 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs) to the scale
- Grandidier’s mongoose bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed mongoose bringing 3.66 kilos (8.07 lbs) to the scale
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose with a weight of 485 grams
- Javan mongoose with a weight of 758 grams
- Angolan slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a weight of 815 grams
- Cape gray mongoose with a weight of 791 grams
- Short-tailed mongoose bringing 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow mongoose
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cynictis penicillata:
- Mountain beaver bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose bringing 711 grams to the scale
- Golden-headed lion tamarin bringing 573 grams to the scale
- Bengal mongoose bringing 741 grams to the scale
- Stump-tailed porcupine bringing 832 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed sportive lemur bringing 763 grams to the scale
- Big-headed African mole-rat bringing 622 grams to the scale
- Lutrine opossum bringing 556 grams to the scale
- Black and red bush squirrel bringing 692 grams to the scale
- Bismarck giant rat bringing 612 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yellow mongoose
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow mongoose:
- Mountain beaver with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- European hedgehog with a size of 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- New Guinean quoll with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hagen’s flying squirrel with a size of 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel with a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Painted ringtail possum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brown greater galago with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Marbled polecat with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Striped bandicoot with a size of 26.7 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow mongoose
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Yellow mongoose:
- Rüppell’s fox
- Butiaba naked-tailed shrew
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
- Black-tailed mouse
- Big deer mouse
- Brown mouse lemur
- Clouded leopard
- Binturong
- Van Deusen’s rat
- Golden spiny mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Yellow mongoose
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Yellow mongoose:
- Goeldi’s marmoset with an average maximal age of 17.83 years
- Rhim gazelle with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Northern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Northern bat with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Grant’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Hamlyn’s monkey with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Tricolored bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Greater false vampire bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Thorold’s deer with an average maximal age of 18 years