How many baby Grant’s golden moles are in a litter?
A Grant’s golden mole (Eremitalpa granti) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 29.5 kg (65.03 lbs) and measure 100 cm (3′ 4″). They are a member of the Chrysochloridae family (genus: Eremitalpa). An adult Grant’s golden mole grows up to a size of 7.6 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
Grant’s golden mole (Eremitalpa granti; colloquially also: dune shark) is a golden mole species. It is the only member of the genus Eremitalpa.
Other animals of the family Chrysochloridae
Grant’s golden mole is a member of the Chrysochloridae, as are these animals:
- Visagie’s golden mole raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arends’s golden mole weighting only 52 grams
- Yellow golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- De Winton’s golden mole raching a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole raching a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 21 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 22 grams
- Arends’s golden mole weighting only 52 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Grant’s golden mole
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Nilgai
- Common minke whale
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Weasel sportive lemur
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Grivet
- Little forest bat
- Hamadryas baboon
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
- Little yellow bat
Animals that get as old as a Grant’s golden mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2 years:
- Wongai ningaui with 2 years
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with 2.25 years
- Mongolian gerbil with 2 years
- Eastern harvest mouse with 2.17 years
- White-eared opossum with 1.67 years
- Marsh rice rat with 2.33 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with 2 years
- Hoary bat with 2.08 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with 1.75 years
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with 2 years
Animals with the same weight as a Grant’s golden mole
What other animals weight around 22 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Akodon budini weighting 26 grams
- White-eared pocket mouse weighting 24 grams
- Moon forest shrew weighting 18 grams
- Scolomys ucayalensis weighting 26 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec weighting 18 grams
- Peromyscus maniculatus weighting 19 grams
- New Guinea free-tailed bat weighting 26 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger weighting 26 grams
- Bank vole weighting 20 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting 22 grams
Animals with the same size as a Grant’s golden mole
Also reaching around 7.6 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Sinaloan pocket mouse gets as big as 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Salt marsh harvest mouse gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Desert long-eared bat gets as big as 6.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Forrest’s mouse gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lowe’s shrew gets as big as 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ranee mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- African pygmy squirrel gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Nelson’s pocket mouse gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)