How many baby Hottentot golden moles are in a litter?
A Hottentot golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Chrysochloridae family (genus: Amblysomus). An adult Hottentot golden mole grows up to a size of 12.2 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 Hottentot golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus) is a species of mammal in the golden mole family, Chrysochloridae. It is found in South Africa, Eswatini, and possibly Lesotho. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and introduced vegetation.It has several subspecies, including the Zulu golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus iris) and Knysna golden mole (Amblysomus iris corriae).In 2013 it was discovered that Hottentot golden moles prefer mates with larger penises.
Other animals of the family Chrysochloridae
Hottentot golden mole is a member of the Chrysochloridae, as are these animals:
- Arends’s golden mole weighting only 52 grams
- Grant’s golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gunning’s golden mole raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- De Winton’s golden mole raching a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 21 grams
- Visagie’s golden mole raching a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole raching a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 22 grams
- Duthie’s golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rough-haired golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hottentot golden mole
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Three-striped night monkey
- Harp seal
- Pel’s pouched bat
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo
- Pygmy treeshrew
- Cape serotine
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Aberdare mole shrew
- Melck’s house bat
Animals that get as old as a Hottentot golden mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 1 years:
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with 1 years
- Crowned shrew with 1.08 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1.08 years
- Meadow vole with 0.92 years
- Northern red-sided opossum with 1 years
- Wood lemming with 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with 1 years
- Myosorex varius with 1 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hottentot golden mole
What other animals weight around 65 grams (0.14 lbs)?
- Togo mouse weighting 55 grams
- Oxymycterus hucucha weighting 67 grams
- Senegal gerbil weighting 60 grams
- Yellow-bellied climbing mouse weighting 59 grams
- Zygodontomys brevicauda weighting 52 grams
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat weighting 68 grams
- Southern big-eared mouse weighting 70 grams
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat weighting 60 grams
- Oecomys cleberi weighting 73 grams
- California vole weighting 57 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hottentot golden mole
Also reaching around 12.2 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Tundra vole gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- South African pouched mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Zempoaltepec gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain pygmy possum gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian slender opossum gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest dormouse gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)