How many baby Sclater’s golden moles are in a litter?
A Sclater’s golden mole (Chlorotalpa sclateri) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 173 grams (0.38 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Chrysochloridae family (genus: Chlorotalpa). An adult Sclater’s golden mole grows up to a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
Sclater’s golden mole (Chlorotalpa sclateri) is a species of mammal in the family Chrysochloridae. It is found in Lesotho and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, and urban areas. This species is locally common, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being of “least concern”.
Other animals of the family Chrysochloridae
Sclater’s golden mole is a member of the Chrysochloridae, as are these animals:
- Duthie’s golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rough-haired golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Van Zyl’s golden mole raching a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gunning’s golden mole raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gunning’s golden mole raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Visagie’s golden mole raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giant golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole weighting only 56 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 22 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Sclater’s golden mole
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Eastern rat
- Bobcat
- Eurasian lynx
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Mexican deer mouse
- Cape gray mongoose
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Common rock rat
- Siberian flying squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Sclater’s golden mole
What other animals weight around 39 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Pen-tailed treeshrew weighting 42 grams
- Large vesper mouse weighting 45 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis weighting 38 grams
- White-striped free-tailed bat weighting 36 grams
- Four-striped grass mouse weighting 40 grams
- Greater bulldog bat weighting 45 grams
- Olive montane mouse weighting 37 grams
- Neuquén grass mouse weighting 42 grams
- Ecuadorian grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Woolly horseshoe bat weighting 34 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sclater’s golden mole
Also reaching around 10 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Bailey’s pocket mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden spiny mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-sided opossum gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Polynesian rat gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Swift fruit bat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s vole gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)