How big does a Desert hedgehog get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Desert hedgehog (Hemiechinus aethiopicus) reaches an average size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 4.5 years, they grow from 8 grams (0.02 lbs) to 396 grams (0.87 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Desert hedgehogs have 3 babies about 1 times per year. The Desert hedgehog (genus: Hemiechinus) is a member of the family Erinaceidae.
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 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:
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dinagat gymnure with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Daurian hedgehog with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Podogymnura truei with a size of 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
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:
- Earless water rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Island mouse with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Western water rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fire-footed rope squirrel with a size of 20.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red bush squirrel with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Banks flying fox with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat with a size of 16.5 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:
- Numbat
- Hoary fox
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Grizzled giant squirrel
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Swamp rabbit
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Handleyomys melanotis
- Beech marten
- Blackish white-toothed shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Desert hedgehog
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Desert hedgehog:
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Long-legged myotis with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Great gerbil with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Uinta ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 5 years
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:
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Silky tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Wied’s marmoset bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Microcebus coquereli bringing 328 grams to the scale
- Horse-tailed squirrel bringing 358 grams to the scale
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat bringing 394 grams to the scale
- Eastern small-toothed rat bringing 357 grams to the scale
- Black-mantled tamarin bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying fox bringing 466 grams to the scale