What is the maximal age a Chinese ferret-badger reaches?
An adult Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata) usually gets as old as 10.5 years.
When born, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 8.9 cm (0′ 4″). As a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Melogale), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata), also known as the small-toothed ferret-badger is a member of the Mustelidae, and widely distributed in Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List and considered tolerant of modified habitat.The Chinese ferret-badger is densely distributed mainly across areas of Central to Southern China.
Animals of the same family as a Chinese ferret-badger
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Mustelidae):
- African striped weasel becoming 5.17 years old
- Lesser grison becoming 7.25 years old
- Greater grison becoming 5.25 years old
- Bornean ferret-badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-throated marten becoming 14 years old
- Fisher (animal) becoming 10.08 years old
- Mountain weasel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- European pine marten becoming 17 years old
- Wolverine becoming 18 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Chinese ferret-badger
With an average age of 10.5 years, Chinese ferret-badger are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Pichi usually reaching 9 years
- Spectral tarsier usually reaching 12 years
- Rock cavy usually reaching 11 years
- Red-necked pademelon usually reaching 9 years
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 9 years
- Common dwarf mongoose usually reaching 10.92 years
- Central American agouti usually reaching 10 years
- Plains viscacha usually reaching 9.33 years
- Java mouse-deer usually reaching 12 years
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat usually reaching 10 years
Animals with the same number of babies Chinese ferret-badger
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Fennec fox
- Central African oyan
- Mechow’s mole-rat
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Nyctophilus corbeni
- Red panda
- Platypus
- Schlieffen’s bat
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat
Weighting as much as Chinese ferret-badger
A fully grown Chinese ferret-badger reaches around 939 grams (2.07 lbs). So do these animals:
- Indian giant squirrel weighting 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) on average
- American marten with 878 grams
- Sunda flying lemur weighting 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) on average
- Eastern woolly lemur weighting 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) on average
- Cinereus ringtail possum with 977 grams
- Screaming hairy armadillo with 930 grams
- Aotus infulatus with 800 grams
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with 867 grams
- Sunda slow loris with 940 grams
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 797 grams
Animals as big as a Chinese ferret-badger
Those animals grow as big as a Chinese ferret-badger:
- Palawan stink badger with 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Tufted capuchin with 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- White-footed saki with 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Red acouchi with 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Burmese ferret-badger with 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Gambian mongoose with 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Aquatic genet with 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Northern brown bandicoot with 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Atlantic titi with 36.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black-footed cat with 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)