It is hard to guess what a Desert hedgehog weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Desert hedgehog (Paraechinus aethiopicus) on average weights 352 grams (0.78 lbs).
The Desert hedgehog is from the family Erinaceidae (genus: Paraechinus). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 4.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.1 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Desert hedgehogs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 desert hedgehog (Paraechinus aethiopicus) is a species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae.
Animals of the same family as a Desert hedgehog
We found other animals of the Erinaceidae family:
- Amur hedgehog with a size of 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Indian hedgehog with a weight of 171 grams
- Daurian hedgehog with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- North African hedgehog with a weight of 931 grams
- Dinagat gymnure with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Desert hedgehog with a weight of 396 grams
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moonrat with a weight of 787 grams
- Four-toed hedgehog with a weight of 311 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Desert hedgehog
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Paraechinus aethiopicus:
- Common yellow-toothed cavy bringing 387 grams to the scale
- Black-tufted marmoset bringing 340 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s squirrel bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Catamarca tuco-tuco bringing 316 grams to the scale
- Montane monkey-faced bat bringing 290 grams to the scale
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- Lowland ringtail possum bringing 300 grams to the scale
- Gilliard’s flying fox bringing 406 grams to the scale
- Santarem marmoset bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Lesser bilby bringing 364 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Desert hedgehog
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Desert hedgehog:
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser small-toothed rat with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Madagascan fruit bat with a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black rat with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Harpy fruit bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Desert hedgehog
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Desert hedgehog:
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel
- Hairy-footed gerbil
- Oldfield mouse
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa
- Bengal fox
- Common punaré
- Bailey’s pocket mouse
- Severtzov’s jerboa
- Painted spiny pocket mouse
- Ungava collared lemming
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Desert hedgehog
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Desert hedgehog:
- Brown four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Derby’s woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Northern pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Northern common cuscus with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Tiger quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Woodland thicket rat with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years