It is hard to guess what a Rough-haired golden mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Rough-haired golden mole (Chrysospalax villosus) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Rough-haired golden mole is from the family Chrysochloridae (genus: Chrysospalax). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Rough-haired golden moles have 1 babies per litter.
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 rough-haired golden mole (Chrysospalax villosus) is a species of mammal that live mostly below ground. They have shiny coats of dense fur and a streamlined, formless appearance. They have no visible eyes or ears; in fact, they are blind – the small eyes are covered with hairy skin. The ears are small and are hidden in the animal’s fur.[10]
Animals of the same family as a Rough-haired golden mole
We found other animals of the Chrysochloridae family:
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giant golden mole with a weight of 440 grams
- Hottentot golden mole with a weight of 65 grams
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Duthie’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow golden mole with a weight of 24 grams
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Rough-haired golden mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chrysospalax villosus:
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Bocage’s mole-rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Pale leaf-eared mouse bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 110 grams to the scale
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian rock rat bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed opossum bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Vinogradov’s jird bringing 117 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Rough-haired golden mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rough-haired golden mole:
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cape York melomys with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Rough-haired golden mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Rough-haired golden mole: