How many baby Giant golden moles are in a litter?
A Giant golden mole (Chrysospalax trevelyani) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 115 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 28 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Chrysochloridae family (genus: Chrysospalax). An adult Giant golden mole grows up to a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″).
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 giant golden mole (Chrysospalax trevelyani) is a small mammal found in Africa. At 23 centimetres (9.1 in) in length, it is the largest of the golden mole species. The mole has dark, glossy brown fur; the name golden comes from the Greek word for green-gold, the family Chrysochloridae name.
Other animals of the family Chrysochloridae
Giant golden mole is a member of the Chrysochloridae, as are these animals:
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole weighting only 56 grams
- Rough-haired golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 22 grams
- Yellow golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Van Zyl’s golden mole raching a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cape golden mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Arends’s golden mole weighting only 52 grams
- Grant’s golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Giant golden mole
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Big deer mouse
- Binturong
- Unalaska collared lemming
- Cameroon clawless otter
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Pipistrellus mimus
- Gobi jerboa
- Desert pocket mouse
- Pygmy mouse lemur
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
Animals that get as old as a Giant golden mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Siberian flying squirrel with 3.75 years
- Kultarr with 3.25 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with 4.58 years
- Japanese shrew mole with 3.5 years
- Bush rat with 3.42 years
- Lesser mole-rat with 4.5 years
- European hamster with 4 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with 4 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Giant golden mole
What other animals weight around 440 grams (0.97 lbs)?
- Mutable sun squirrel weighting 390 grams
- Short-tailed chinchilla weighting 500 grams
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat weighting 439 grams
- Oaxacan pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- JunÃn red squirrel weighting 482 grams
- Pousargues’s mongoose weighting 362 grams
- Pied tamarin weighting 465 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 403 grams
- Long-tailed chinchilla weighting 480 grams
Animals with the same size as a Giant golden mole
Also reaching around 23.4 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Mindoro black rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel gets as big as 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Northeast African mole-rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sikkim rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s squirrel gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pied tamarin gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lowland ringtail possum gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)