It is hard to guess what a Grant’s golden mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Grant’s golden mole (Eremitalpa granti) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Grant’s golden mole is from the family Chrysochloridae (genus: Eremitalpa). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Grant’s golden moles 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.
Grant’s golden mole (Eremitalpa granti; colloquially also: dune shark) is a golden mole species. It is the only member of the genus Eremitalpa.
Animals of the same family as a Grant’s golden mole
We found other animals of the Chrysochloridae family:
- Juliana’s golden mole with a weight of 22 grams
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sclater’s golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a weight of 56 grams
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Arends’s golden mole with a weight of 52 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole with a weight of 21 grams
- Hottentot golden mole with a weight of 65 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Grant’s golden mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Eremitalpa granti:
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Chinese mole shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Woodland vole bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed caenolestid bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys microtis bringing 22 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Grant’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 Grant’s golden mole:
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common shrew with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Madagascan flying fox with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- American water shrew with a size of 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Narrow-nosed harvest mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Little desert pocket mouse with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Grant’s golden mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Grant’s golden mole:
- Schreber’s yellow bat
- Baikal seal
- Arabian oryx
- Natal long-fingered bat
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Sooty mangabey
- Eastern falanouc
- Mexican long-tongued bat
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Great fruit-eating bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Grant’s golden mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Grant’s golden mole:
- White-eared opossum with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Ningbing false antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Cinereus shrew with an average maximal age of 1.92 years
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Wongai ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Mediterranean water shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Marsh rice rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Delany’s mouse with an average maximal age of 2 years