How many baby Rough-haired golden moles are in a litter?
A Rough-haired golden mole (Chrysospalax villosus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
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 Rough-haired golden mole grows up to a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″).
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 rough-haired golden mole (Chrysospalax villosus) is a species of mammal that live mostly below ground. They have shiny coats of dense fur and a streamlined, formless appearance. They have no visible eyes or ears; in fact, they are blind – the small eyes are covered with hairy skin. The ears are small and are hidden in the animal’s fur.[10]
Other animals of the family Chrysochloridae
Rough-haired golden mole is a member of the Chrysochloridae, as are these animals:
- Grant’s golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- De Winton’s golden mole raching a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 21 grams
- Gunning’s golden mole raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giant golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Arends’s golden mole weighting only 52 grams
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole weighting only 56 grams
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Rough-haired golden mole
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Fire-footed rope squirrel
- Short-eared possum
- Tufted capuchin
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Large-footed bat
- Sitatunga
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
- Guam flying fox
- Jentink’s duiker
Animals with the same weight as a Rough-haired golden mole
What other animals weight around 112 grams (0.25 lbs)?
- Collared pika weighting 129 grams
- White-bellied rat weighting 100 grams
- Hispid cotton rat weighting 111 grams
- Greater spear-nosed bat weighting 91 grams
- Libyan jird weighting 91 grams
- Kimberley rock rat weighting 95 grams
- Dent’s vlei rat weighting 120 grams
- Hastings River mouse weighting 95 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Siberian chipmunk weighting 94 grams
Animals with the same size as a Rough-haired golden mole
Also reaching around 15 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Congo rope squirrel gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Desert kangaroo rat gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large tree mouse gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Reddish tuco-tuco gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Giant kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Slender rat gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)