It is hard to guess what a Hottentot golden mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hottentot golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus) on average weights 65 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Hottentot golden mole is from the family Chrysochloridae (genus: Amblysomus). It is usually born with about 4 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 1 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.2 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Hottentot golden moles can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Hottentot golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus) is a species of mammal in the golden mole family, Chrysochloridae. It is found in South Africa, Eswatini, and possibly Lesotho. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and introduced vegetation.It has several subspecies, including the Zulu golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus iris) and Knysna golden mole (Amblysomus iris corriae).In 2013 it was discovered that Hottentot golden moles prefer mates with larger penises.
Animals of the same family as a Hottentot golden mole
We found other animals of the Chrysochloridae family:
- Cape golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Grant’s golden mole with a weight of 22 grams
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a weight of 21 grams
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with a weight of 112 grams
- Yellow golden mole with a weight of 24 grams
- Duthie’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Giant golden mole with a weight of 440 grams
- Arends’s golden mole with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hottentot golden mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Amblysomus hottentotus:
- Broad-footed mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed fruit bat bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys lamia bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Greater big-footed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Balkan mole bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Ladew’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Swift fruit bat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hottentot golden mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hottentot golden mole:
- Western chestnut mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Champion’s tree mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains viscacha rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Zempoaltépec vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sulawesi rousette with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain pygmy possum with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large tree mouse with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hottentot golden mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hottentot golden mole:
- Pudú
- Defua rat
- Aba roundleaf bat
- Lesser tree mouse
- Brown long-eared bat
- Southwestern myotis
- Javan rusa
- Sitatunga
- Shining thicket rat
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hottentot golden mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hottentot golden mole:
- Wood lemming with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Myosorex varius with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Meadow vole with an average maximal age of 0.92 years