It is hard to guess what a Arends’s golden mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arends’s golden mole (Carpitalpa arendsi) on average weights 52 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Arends’s golden mole is from the family Chrysochloridae (genus: Carpitalpa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.3 cm (0′ 5″).
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
Arends’s golden mole (Carpitalpa arendsi) is a species of mammal in the family Chrysochloridae. It is found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and introduced vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss.It is the only species in the genus Carpitalpa. It was moved from the genus Chlorotalpa.It was first described by Lundholm, who named it for Nicolas Arends, taxidermist at the Kaffrarian Museum (now the Amathole Museum, in King William’s Town, South Africa) who captured the specimen.
Animals of the same family as a Arends’s golden mole
We found other animals of the Chrysochloridae family:
- Yellow golden mole with a weight of 24 grams
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a weight of 56 grams
- Arends’s golden mole with a weight of 52 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole with a weight of 21 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole with a weight of 22 grams
- Duthie’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Giant golden mole with a weight of 440 grams
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Arends’s golden mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Carpitalpa arendsi:
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Midas free-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Rupp’s mouse bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Dusky slender opossum bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Sambirano mouse lemur bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys levipes bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Medje free-tailed bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Black-bellied fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Arends’s golden mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Arends’s golden mole:
- Yellow golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese mole with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern hopping mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern bog lemming with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)