How many baby Cape golden moles are in a litter?
A Cape golden mole (Chrysochloris asiatica) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 374 grams (0.82 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Chrysochloridae family (genus: Chrysochloris). An adult Cape golden mole grows up to a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
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.
Other animals of the family Chrysochloridae
Cape golden mole is a member of the Chrysochloridae, as are these animals:
- Yellow golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Arends’s golden mole weighting only 52 grams
- Gunning’s golden mole raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Duthie’s golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Grant’s golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arends’s golden mole weighting only 52 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 22 grams
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- De Winton’s golden mole raching a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals that share a litter size with Cape golden mole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- San Diego pocket mouse
- Black-backed jackal
- Crab-eating mongoose
- Derby’s woolly opossum
- Holochilus brasiliensis
- Insular vole
- European badger
- Nicobar shrew
- Delectable soft-furred mouse
- Dolorous grass mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Cape golden mole
What other animals weight around 39 grams (0.09 lbs)?
- Perote mouse weighting 40 grams
- Greater false vampire bat weighting 39 grams
- Guatemalan deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat weighting 32 grams
- Spotted bolo mouse weighting 37 grams
- Olrog’s chaco mouse weighting 32 grams
- Ethiopian thicket rat weighting 36 grams
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat weighting 42 grams
- Smith’s vole weighting 34 grams
- Greater broad-nosed bat weighting 37 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cape golden mole
Also reaching around 10.6 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Ammodile gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sculptor squirrel gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Singing vole gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Zempoaltepec gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan shrew gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bastard big-footed mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern shrew mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwan field mouse gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)