It is hard to guess what a Golden-rumped elephant shrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) on average weights 535 grams (1.18 lbs).
The Golden-rumped elephant shrew is from the family Macroscelididae (genus: Rhynchocyon). It is usually born with about 80 grams (0.18 lbs). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 27.3 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Golden-rumped elephant shrews have 1 babies per litter.
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 golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) is a small African mammal. It is the largest species of the elephant shrew family along with its close relative the grey-faced sengi. It is classified as endangered.
Animals of the same family as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew
We found other animals of the Macroscelididae family:
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with a weight of 59 grams
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per litter
- Cape elephant shrew with a weight of 49 grams
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a weight of 38 grams
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew with a weight of 57 grams
- Four-toed elephant shrew with a weight of 201 grams
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a weight of 48 grams
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with a weight of 423 grams
- Rufous elephant shrew with a weight of 52 grams
- Checkered elephant shrew with a weight of 424 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Rhynchocyon chrysopygus:
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat bringing 445 grams to the scale
- Baja California rock squirrel bringing 551 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu flying fox bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat bringing 465 grams to the scale
- White-footed sportive lemur bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Eastern lowland olingo bringing 620 grams to the scale
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat bringing 489 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden-rumped elephant shrew:
- White-tailed prairie dog with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner with a size of 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Potto with a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Yucatan squirrel with a size of 23.6 cm (0′ 10″)
- Golden lion tamarin with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Variegated squirrel with a size of 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Yellow-bellied weasel with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew:
- Fox’s shrew
- Feather-tailed possum
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Central American agouti
- Markhor
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Kerivoula hardwickei
- African brush-tailed porcupine
- Jameson’s red rock hare
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Northern birch mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Japanese shrew mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- European hamster with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years