It is hard to guess what a Arends’s golden mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arends’s golden mole (Chlorotalpa arendsi) on average weights 52 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Arends’s golden mole is from the family Chrysochloridae (genus: Chlorotalpa). 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:
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Giant golden mole with a weight of 440 grams
- Arends’s golden mole with a weight of 52 grams
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a weight of 22 grams
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with a weight of 112 grams
- Cape golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Grant’s golden mole with a weight of 22 grams
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 Chlorotalpa arendsi:
- Balkan snow vole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Painted big-eared mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Malayan water shrew bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Small five-toed jerboa bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Prairie vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Pyrenean desman bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Greater big-footed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Hainan gymnure bringing 52 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:
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Typical striped grass mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chipmunk with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)