What is the maximal age a Lesser grison reaches?
An adult Lesser grison (Galictis cuja) usually gets as old as 7.25 years.
When born, they weight 20 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Galictis). Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″).
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 lesser grison (Galictis cuja) is a species of mustelid from South America.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser grison
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Mustelidae):
- Fisher (animal) becoming 10.08 years old
- Hog badger becoming 13.92 years old
- African striped weasel becoming 5.17 years old
- American mink becoming 10 years old
- Long-tailed weasel becoming 7.08 years old
- Hooded skunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sable becoming 15 years old
- Malayan weasel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- African clawless otter becoming 11 years old
- Beech marten becoming 18.08 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Lesser grison
With an average age of 7.25 years, Lesser grison are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Least chipmunk usually reaching 6.25 years
- Cape gray mongoose usually reaching 8.67 years
- Greater Egyptian gerbil usually reaching 8.17 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 6 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel usually reaching 7.08 years
- Brown dorcopsis usually reaching 7.58 years
- Jamaican coney usually reaching 8.25 years
- Eastern quoll usually reaching 6.75 years
- Coruro usually reaching 6 years
- Florida mouse usually reaching 7.33 years
Weighting as much as Lesser grison
A fully grown Lesser grison reaches around 1000 grams (2.2 lbs). So do these animals:
- Brown titi with 851 grams
- Rio Beni titi with 992 grams
- Water opossum with 977 grams
- Sable weighting 1.17 kilos (2.58 lbs) on average
- Southern brown bandicoot with 825 grams
- Western white-eared giant rat with 932 grams
- Spotted giant flying squirrel weighting 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs) on average
- Bahia porcupine with 999 grams
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with 960 grams
- Azara’s night monkey with 929 grams
Animals as big as a Lesser grison
Those animals grow as big as a Lesser grison:
- Striped skunk with 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- De Vis’s woolly rat with 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Cuban solenodon with 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Long-tailed porcupine with 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- American mink with 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cape gray mongoose with 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red lemur with 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)