How big does a Spotted linsang get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor) reaches an average size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 1.14 kg (2.52 lbs). A Spotted linsang has 2 babies at once. The Spotted linsang (genus: Prionodon) is a member of the family Viverridae.
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 spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor) is a linsang, a tree-dwelling carnivorous mammal, found throughout much of Southeast Asia. It is widely, though usually sparsely, recorded, and listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Spotted linsang
We found other animals of the Viverridae family:
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Giant forest genet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Large Indian civet with a size of 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Owston’s palm civet with a size of 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- African palm civet with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Haussa genet with a size of 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern falanouc with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Small Indian civet with a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Hose’s palm civet with a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same size as a Spotted linsang
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Spotted linsang:
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Monk saki with a size of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- San José brush rabbit with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Short-beaked echidna with a size of 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Burmese ferret-badger with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Striped skunk with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Tailless tenrec with a size of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Spotted linsang
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Spotted linsang:
- Buettikofer’s shrew
- Greater dwarf shrew
- Jaguarundi
- Southern Plains woodrat
- Menzbier’s marmot
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
- Indian hedgehog
- Cacomistle
- Temminck’s striped mouse
- Snow leopard
Animals with the same weight as a Spotted linsang
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Prionodon pardicolor:
- Sable with a weight of 1.17 kilos (2.58 lbs)
- Marsh rabbit with a weight of 1.36 kilos (3 lbs)
- Malagasy giant rat with a weight of 1.18 kilos (2.6 lbs)
- Sunda slow loris bringing 940 grams to the scale
- Indian grey mongoose with a weight of 1.31 kilos (2.89 lbs)
- Big-eared opossum with a weight of 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs)
- Brown greater galago with a weight of 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs)
- Tres Marias rabbit bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Blanford’s fox bringing 994 grams to the scale
- Servaline genet with a weight of 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs)