What is the maximal age a Common genet reaches?
An adult Common genet (Genetta genetta) usually gets as old as 34 years.
Common genets are around 74 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 77 grams (0.17 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). As a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Genetta), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″).
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 common genet (Genetta genetta) is a small viverrid indigenous to Africa that was introduced to southwestern Europe and the Balearic Islands. It is widely distributed north of the Sahara, in savanna zones south of the Sahara to southern Africa and along the coast of Arabia, Yemen and Oman. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Common genet
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Viverridae):
- Eastern falanouc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Large Indian civet becoming 20 years old
- Hose’s palm civet getting as big as 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Aquatic genet growing to a mass of 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
- Banded palm civet becoming 12 years old
- Otter civet becoming 5 years old
- Abyssinian genet growing to a mass of 1.41 kgs (3.11 lbs)
- Golden palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cape genet becoming 15 years old
- Large-spotted civet growing to a mass of 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
Animals that reach the same age as Common genet
With an average age of 34 years, Common genet are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Anoa usually reaching 36 years
- African buffalo usually reaching 29.5 years
- African civet usually reaching 28 years
- Common brown lemur usually reaching 37 years
- Northern giraffe usually reaching 36.25 years
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 39 years
- Ribbon seal usually reaching 31 years
- California sea lion usually reaching 30 years
- Onager usually reaching 38.75 years
- West Indian manatee usually reaching 30 years
Animals with the same number of babies Common genet
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Little pied bat
- White-tailed mongoose
- Indian palm squirrel
- Blanford’s fox
- Florida mouse
- Highveld gerbil
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Tolai hare
- White-lipped tamarin
Weighting as much as Common genet
A fully grown Common genet reaches around 1.77 kg (3.9 lbs). So do these animals:
- Small dorcopsis weighting 1.89 kilos (4.17 lbs) on average
- Abyssinian hare weighting 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs) on average
- Southern long-nosed armadillo weighting 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) on average
- Selous’s mongoose weighting 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs) on average
- Striped hog-nosed skunk weighting 2.01 kilos (4.43 lbs) on average
- Snowshoe hare weighting 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs) on average
- Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine weighting 2 kilos (4.41 lbs) on average
- Northern brushtail possum weighting 1.55 kilos (3.42 lbs) on average
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel weighting 1.48 kilos (3.26 lbs) on average
- Southern viscacha weighting 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Common genet
Those animals grow as big as a Common genet:
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Northern plains gray langur with 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Pampas fox with 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Spotted-necked otter with 59.4 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pygmy hog with 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black colobus with 62.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Ground cuscus with 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Maned sloth with 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Yunnan hare with 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)