How big does a Ring-tailed vontsira get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Ring-tailed vontsira (Galidia elegans) reaches an average size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 13.17 years, they grow from 48 grams (0.11 lbs) to 815 grams (1.8 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Ring-tailed vontsiras have 1 babies about 1 times per year. The Ring-tailed vontsira (genus: Galidia) is a member of the family Herpestidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The ring-tailed vontsira, locally still known as the ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans) is a euplerid in the subfamily Galidiinae, a carnivoran native to Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Ring-tailed vontsira
We found other animals of the Herpestidae family:
- Common dwarf mongoose with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Narrow-striped mongoose with a size of 31.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Angolan kusimanse with a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Namaqua slender mongoose with a weight of 750 grams
- Selous’s mongoose with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Liberian mongoose with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-tailed mongoose with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Javan mongoose with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same size as a Ring-tailed vontsira
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ring-tailed vontsira:
- De Vis’s woolly rat with a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Chinese hare with a size of 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Fennec fox with a size of 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Reclusive ringtail possum with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black bearded saki with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Gilbert’s potoroo with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Northern viscacha with a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a size of 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ring-tailed vontsira
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Ring-tailed vontsira:
- Pampas deer
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
- Mongalla free-tailed bat
- Javan rhinoceros
- Tickell’s bat
- Sika deer
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Common eland
- Gayal
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Ring-tailed vontsira
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Ring-tailed vontsira:
- Eastern bettong with an average maximal age of 11.75 years
- Rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with an average maximal age of 10.92 years
- Urial with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Desert rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater dwarf lemur with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Parti-coloured bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Red forest duiker with an average maximal age of 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Ring-tailed vontsira
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galidia elegans:
- Brown titi bringing 851 grams to the scale
- Meerkat bringing 730 grams to the scale
- White-eared titi bringing 898 grams to the scale
- Mimic tree rat bringing 975 grams to the scale
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale
- White-tailed prairie dog bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Stump-tailed porcupine bringing 832 grams to the scale
- Conover’s tuco-tuco bringing 860 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied titi bringing 962 grams to the scale
- Cape gray mongoose bringing 791 grams to the scale