How many baby Yellow golden moles are in a litter?
A Yellow golden mole (Calcochloris obtusirostris) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 100 grams (0.22 lbs) and measure 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Chrysochloridae family (genus: Calcochloris). An adult Yellow golden mole grows up to a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″).
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 yellow golden mole (Calcochloris obtusirostris) is a species of mammal in the family Chrysochloridae. It is found in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, arable land, pastureland, plantations, and rural gardens.Yellow golden moles are likely to dig at the base of trees and create underground “nest” in which they forage for food. Its diet mainly consists of insects, bugs, small lizards, flies, and other tiny animals found underground.
Other animals of the family Chrysochloridae
Yellow golden mole is a member of the Chrysochloridae, as are these animals:
- Giant golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Duthie’s golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gunning’s golden mole raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gunning’s golden mole raching a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting only 22 grams
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole weighting only 56 grams
- Hottentot golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape golden mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Arends’s golden mole weighting only 52 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Yellow golden mole
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Eastern rat
- Mexican woodrat
- Snow leopard
- Clouded leopard
- Cape porcupine
- Watson’s climbing rat
- Japanese hare
- Lesser bilby
- Mayor’s mouse
- Eastern chestnut mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow golden mole
What other animals weight around 24 grams (0.05 lbs)?
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat weighting 25 grams
- Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat weighting 21 grams
- Louise’s spiny mouse weighting 20 grams
- Abrothrix sanborni weighting 24 grams
- Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse weighting 20 grams
- Van Gelder’s bat weighting 22 grams
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse weighting 27 grams
- Harlequin bat weighting 22 grams
- Akodon affinis weighting 24 grams
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse weighting 28 grams
Animals with the same size as a Yellow golden mole
Also reaching around 10 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Blue-gray mouse gets as big as 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western red-backed vole gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Goodwin’s broad-clawed shrew gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Painted spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Visagie’s golden mole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)