It is hard to guess what a Chinese zokor weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chinese zokor (Myospalax fontanierii) on average weights 257 grams (0.57 lbs).
The Chinese zokor is from the family Muridae (genus: Myospalax). It is usually born with about 9 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.9 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
The Chinese zokor (Eospalax fontanierii) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae. It is endemic to China, ranging from Qinghai Province eastwards to Beijing in steppe and alpine grasslands. Henri Milne-Edwards first described it in 1867. Eradication programs in the 1990s in Qinghai Province resulted in a population decline to less than a third of the former population. It is considered common and has been assessed as Least Concern by IUCN.An average adult weighs 256 g (9.0 oz) and newborn young weigh 9 g (0.32 oz).
Animals of the same family as a Chinese zokor
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Soft-furred rat with a weight of 67 grams
- Taczanowski’s Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Highland brush mouse with a weight of 54 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Narrow-headed vole with 8 babies per litter
- Pygmy rock mouse with a weight of 20 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a weight of 85 grams
- Mamore arboreal rice rat with a weight of 62 grams
- Melanomys caliginosus with a weight of 41 grams
- Voalavoanala with a weight of 97 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese zokor
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myospalax fontanierii:
- Greater hedgehog tenrec bringing 277 grams to the scale
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Smoky flying squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Japanese squirrel bringing 264 grams to the scale
- Golden-backed tree-rat bringing 294 grams to the scale
- Steere’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Fijian monkey-faced bat bringing 256 grams to the scale