It is hard to guess what a Desert hedgehog weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert hedgehog (Hemiechinus aethiopicus) on average weights 396 grams (0.87 lbs).
The Desert hedgehog is from the family Erinaceidae (genus: Hemiechinus). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 4.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.1 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Desert hedgehogs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 desert hedgehog (Paraechinus aethiopicus) is a species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae.
Animals of the same family as a Desert hedgehog
We found other animals of the Erinaceidae family:
- Indian hedgehog with a weight of 171 grams
- Short-tailed gymnure with a weight of 60 grams
- Podogymnura truei with a size of 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- North African hedgehog with a weight of 931 grams
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a weight of 213 grams
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a weight of 213 grams
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog with a weight of 690 grams
- Long-eared hedgehog with a weight of 332 grams
- Amur hedgehog with a size of 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Desert hedgehog
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemiechinus aethiopicus:
- Mutable sun squirrel bringing 390 grams to the scale
- Bagobo rat bringing 395 grams to the scale
- Golden bandicoot bringing 425 grams to the scale
- White-footed tamarin bringing 457 grams to the scale
- Desert hedgehog bringing 352 grams to the scale
- Borneo black-banded squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Namaqua dune mole-rat bringing 389 grams to the scale
- Richardson’s ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Franklin’s ground squirrel bringing 458 grams to the scale
- White-winged flying fox bringing 343 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert hedgehog
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert hedgehog:
- Townsend’s pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Nectomys squamipes with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bush rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Siberian flying squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brooke’s squirrel with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert hedgehog
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Desert hedgehog:
- Hoary fox
- Oryzomys couesi
- Kivu long-haired shrew
- Deroo’s mouse
- Hooper’s mouse
- Fisher (animal)
- Northern mole vole
- Black-eared mouse
- Plains harvest mouse
- Reddish-gray musk shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Desert hedgehog
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Desert hedgehog:
- Val’s gundi with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Yellow-necked mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Cave nectar bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Forest giant squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.08 years
- Black-footed tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Central African oyan with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Northern pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 3.75 years