What is the maximal age a Sable reaches?
An adult Sable (Martes zibellina) usually gets as old as 15 years.
Sables are around 30 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 31 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 8.9 cm (0′ 4″). As a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Martes), their offspring is 3 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 45.1 cm (1′ 6″).
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 sable (Martes zibellina) is a species of marten, a small omnivorous mammal primarily inhabiting the forest environments of Russia, from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, and northern Mongolia. Its habitat also borders eastern Kazakhstan, China, North Korea and HokkaidÅ, Japan. Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland and Scandinavia. Historically, it has been hunted for its highly valued dark brown or black fur, which remains a luxury good to this day. While hunting is still common in Russia, most fur on the market is now commercially farmed.
Animals of the same family as a Sable
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Mustelidae):
- Saharan striped polecat becoming 5 years old
- Yellow-throated marten becoming 14 years old
- Sea otter becoming 30 years old
- Smooth-coated otter becoming 15 years old
- Colombian weasel bringing the scale to 211 grams
- Amazon weasel bringing the scale to 268 grams
- Tayra becoming 18 years old
- Least weasel becoming 10 years old
- Long-tailed weasel becoming 7.08 years old
- European pine marten becoming 17 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Sable
With an average age of 15 years, Sable are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Banded palm civet usually reaching 12 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope usually reaching 14 years
- Striped polecat usually reaching 13.33 years
- Lowland paca usually reaching 16 years
- Common treeshrew usually reaching 12.42 years
- Jungle cat usually reaching 12 years
- Maned wolf usually reaching 15 years
- Black bearded saki usually reaching 18 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur usually reaching 12 years
- Pallas’s squirrel usually reaching 16.08 years
Animals with the same number of babies Sable
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Anderson’s gerbil
- Nicobar shrew
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
- Northern collared lemming
- Royle’s pika
- Desert kangaroo rat
- Comb-toed jerboa
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Altai birch mouse
Weighting as much as Sable
A fully grown Sable reaches around 1.17 kg (2.58 lbs). So do these animals:
- European polecat with 980 grams
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with 960 grams
- Eastern quoll weighting 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) on average
- Red-bellied titi with 962 grams
- Green ringtail possum weighting 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs) on average
- Japanese marten weighting 1 kilos (2.2 lbs) on average
- Western quoll weighting 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) on average
- Banded mongoose weighting 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) on average
- Grandidier’s mongoose weighting 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs) on average
- Hoffmanns’s titi weighting 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Sable
Those animals grow as big as a Sable:
- Common brushtail possum with 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)
- Monk saki with 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Common brown lemur with 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine with 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- European rabbit with 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Olive colobus with 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Mountain hare with 50.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Servaline genet with 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Long-tailed porcupine with 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ethiopian highland hare with 51 cm (1′ 9″)