What is the maximal age a Common kusimanse reaches?
An adult Common kusimanse (Crossarchus obscurus) usually gets as old as 9 years.
Common kusimanses are around 70 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Crossarchus), a Common kusimanse caries out around 4 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″).
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 kusimanse (Crossarchus obscurus), also known as the long-nosed kusimanse or simply cusimanse, is a small, diurnal kusimanse or dwarf mongoose. Of three subfamilies of Herpestidae (Herpestinae, Mungotinae and Galidiinae), the kusimanse is a member of Mungotinae, which are small and very social.
Animals of the same family as a Common kusimanse
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Herpestidae):
- Bengal mongoose bringing the scale to 741 grams
- Narrow-striped mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose bringing the scale to 485 grams
- Short-tailed mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ruddy mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape gray mongoose becoming 8.67 years old
- Long-nosed mongoose growing to a mass of 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Selous’s mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian grey mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Common kusimanse
With an average age of 9 years, Common kusimanse are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Marbled polecat usually reaching 8.92 years
- Greater spear-nosed bat usually reaching 10 years
- Florida mouse usually reaching 7.33 years
- Grey-bellied squirrel usually reaching 9.5 years
- Plains viscacha usually reaching 9.33 years
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 10.58 years
- Northern tamandua usually reaching 9.5 years
- Eastern spotted skunk usually reaching 10 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat usually reaching 10 years
- Lesser grison usually reaching 7.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Common kusimanse
The same number of babies at once (4) are born by:
- Indian hedgehog
- Lataste’s gerbil
- Long-clawed ground squirrel
- Bush dog
- Culpeo
- Pale gerbil
- Northern pika
- Long-tailed giant rat
- Dice’s cottontail
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse
Weighting as much as Common kusimanse
A fully grown Common kusimanse reaches around 1.39 kg (3.07 lbs). So do these animals:
- Brown greater galago weighting 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) on average
- Rufous hare-wallaby weighting 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs) on average
- Back-striped weasel weighting 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs) on average
- Chinese hare weighting 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs) on average
- Abyssinian genet weighting 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs) on average
- Eastern cottontail weighting 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs) on average
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo weighting 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs) on average
- Fennec fox weighting 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs) on average
- Southern viscacha weighting 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs) on average
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur weighting 1.62 kilos (3.57 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Common kusimanse
Those animals grow as big as a Common kusimanse:
- Moonrat with 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Lutrine opossum with 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Cape dune mole-rat with 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern common cuscus with 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Guianan squirrel monkey with 32.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Striped skunk with 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Greater bilby with 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Banded linsang with 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black-footed ferret with 39.7 cm (1′ 4″)