It is hard to guess what a Chinese zokor weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chinese zokor (Eospalax fontanierii) on average weights 256 grams (0.56 lbs).
The Chinese zokor is from the family Spalacidae (genus: Eospalax). It is usually born with about 9 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.5 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 Spalacidae family:
- Lesser mole-rat with a weight of 188 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat with a weight of 164 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese zokor
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eospalax fontanierii:
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Boyacá spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Gray slender loris bringing 254 grams to the scale
- Luzon broad-toothed rat bringing 268 grams to the scale
- Napo spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- White-toothed tuco-tuco bringing 244 grams to the scale
- Madagascan fruit bat bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Yucatan squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Indochinese flying squirrel bringing 227 grams to the scale