It is hard to guess what a Mole-like rice tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mole-like rice tenrec (Oryzorictes hova) on average weights 34 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Mole-like rice tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Oryzorictes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.4 cm (0′ 5″).
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 mole-like rice tenrec (Oryzorictes hova), also known as the fossorial tenrec or hova rice tenrec, is a species of mammal in the tenrec family. Like all other tenrecs, it is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, swamps, freshwater lakes, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Mole-like rice tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 277 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a weight of 35 grams
- Web-footed tenrec with a weight of 77 grams
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 37 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a weight of 39 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 22 grams
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 8 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
- Gracile shrew tenrec with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mole-like rice tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oryzorictes hova:
- El Carrizo deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Dark bolo mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Bibimys chacoensis bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Dryad shrew tenrec bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Lesser bulldog bat bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Serra do Mar grass mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Dickey’s deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Tundra vole bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Stolička’s mountain vole bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Grey dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mole-like rice tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mole-like rice tenrec:
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spinifex hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Naked-rumped tomb bat with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)