It is hard to guess what a Greater hedgehog tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus) on average weights 277 grams (0.61 lbs).
The Greater hedgehog tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Setifer). It is usually born with about 24 grams (0.05 lbs). They can live for up to 10.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Greater hedgehog tenrecs 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 greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus), also known as the large Madagascar hedgehog or sokina, is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rural gardens, urban areas and zoos.It is the only species in the genus Setifer. Despite the close resemblance, it is not closely related to hedgehogs.
Animals of the same family as a Greater hedgehog tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a weight of 34 grams
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 10 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 45 grams
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 37 grams
- Dryad shrew tenrec with a weight of 40 grams
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 8 grams
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 22 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Greater hedgehog tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Setifer setosus:
- Straw-coloured fruit bat bringing 253 grams to the scale
- African striped weasel bringing 308 grams to the scale
- Andersen’s naked-backed fruit bat bringing 233 grams to the scale
- Royle’s pika bringing 260 grams to the scale
- White-toothed tuco-tuco bringing 244 grams to the scale
- Grey-bellied squirrel bringing 265 grams to the scale
- Borneo black-banded squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Speckled ground squirrel bringing 252 grams to the scale
- Aldabra flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Deppe’s squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Greater hedgehog tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Greater hedgehog tenrec:
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mexican ground squirrel with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japen rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-tailed squirrel with a size of 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Greater hedgehog tenrec
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Greater hedgehog tenrec:
- Japanese shrew mole
- Prairie vole
- Handleyomys melanotis
- Abert’s squirrel
- European mole
- Savanna gerbil
- Plains pocket gopher
- Namaqua rock rat
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Southwestern water vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Greater hedgehog tenrec
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Greater hedgehog tenrec:
- Northern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Spectral tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Banded mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Naked mole-rat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Mountain beaver with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Java mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 12 years