How big does a Cape golden mole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Cape golden mole (Chrysochloris asiatica) reaches an average size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 39 grams (0.09 lbs). A Cape golden mole has 3 babies at once. The Cape golden mole (genus: Chrysochloris) is a member of the family Chrysochloridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Cape golden mole (Chrysochloris asiatica) is a small, insectivorous mammal of the family Chrysochloridae, the golden moles. It is native to certain south western regions of South Africa. The species is a solitary subterranean insectivore, confined to the coastal regions of the south-western and southern Cape. When foraging for soil invertebrates, these golden moles excavate superficial burrows using their conical nose shield and highly modified forefeet. Females are smaller than males. Golden moles have very dense, soft, and silky coats. The coats are colored blackish to slaty-grey and brown to pale fawn. They have also been observed to venture on to sandy beaches, presumably to feed on amphipods and isopods occurring there.
Animals of the same family as a Cape golden mole
We found other animals of the Chrysochloridae family:
- Giant golden mole with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Yellow golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hottentot golden mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Duthie’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Grant’s golden mole with a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Cape golden mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Cape golden mole:
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Meadow vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ammodile with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rümmler’s brush mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Cape golden mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Cape golden mole:
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- Allen’s wood mouse
- Little native mouse
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
- Anderson’s gerbil
- Pale kangaroo mouse
- Andean mountain cavy
- Texas mouse
- Rajah spiny rat
Animals with the same weight as a Cape golden mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chrysochloris asiatica:
- Four-toed rice tenrec bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Hairy fruit-eating bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Pousargues African fat mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix longipilis bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed false antechinus bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Indian roundleaf bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale