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Poecilogale albinucha🦡

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SpeciesCarnivoraMustelidae
Carnivores

🦡African striped weasel

Poecilogale albinucha (Gray, 1864)

非洲條紋鼬（學名：Poecilogale albinucha），屬於食肉目鼬科的一屬，生活在非洲撒哈拉沙漠以南地區，體型類似非洲艾虎。

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≈ 1/220th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2015.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
0.28 kg
Body length
0.33 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
6.24 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the African striped weasel

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.28 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.28 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Body length
0.33 m
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Brain mass
4.92 g
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Maximum lifespan
6.24 years
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Generation length
3.4 years
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Age at maturity
2.5 years
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Gestation
32 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 32 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Litter size
about 2
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  • 2.2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: low
Trophic level
Carnivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for African striped weasel yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classMammalia
  4. ›orderCarnivora
  5. ›familyMustelidae
  6. ›genusPoecilogale
  7. ›speciesPoecilogale albinucha
Full lineage
  1. classMammals · Mammalia
  2. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  3. subfamilyGalictinae
  4. genusPoecilogale
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. classMammals · Mammalia
  9. subclassTheria
  10. superorderLaurasiatheria
  11. orderCarnivorans · Carnivora
  12. suborderCaniformia
  13. familyMustelidae
  14. subfamilyGalictinae
  15. genusPoecilogale
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What it eats
warm-blooded animals70%
reptiles, fish and amphibians20%
insects and other invertebrates10%
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Weißnackenwiesel (de), Poecilogale albinucha (fr), Doninha-de-nuca-branca (pt), африканская ласка (ru), Poecilogale albinucha (es), mostela de clatell blanc (ca) … and 17 more languages
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