It is hard to guess what a Highland streaked tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Highland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes nigriceps) on average weights 102 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Highland streaked tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Hemicentetes). It is usually born with about 7 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 2.58 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Highland streaked tenrecs can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 2.
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 highland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes nigriceps) is an insectivore which lives in the central upland regions of Madagascar. Its black and white striped body is covered with quills, which it will raise when agitated. The spines detach and remain in the body of an inquisitive predator. The function of the black and white pattern may be to mimic juvenile Tenrec ecaudatus since the parents of this species are known to be aggressively protective, and the stripes may have developed as a type of camouflage while foraging. The highland streaked tenrec uses its long snout to burrow under leaves and bark, searching for earthworms, its primary food.
Animals of the same family as a Highland streaked tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a weight of 129 grams
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 277 grams
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 8 grams
- Nimba otter shrew with a weight of 69 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a weight of 34 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a weight of 112 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 10 grams
- Web-footed tenrec with a weight of 77 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Highland streaked tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemicentetes nigriceps:
- Madagascan flying fox bringing 122 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Gorongoza gerbil bringing 118 grams to the scale
- Robert’s hocicudo bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Dent’s vlei rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Amazonian marsh rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Golden Oldfield mouse bringing 88 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Highland streaked tenrec
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Highland streaked tenrec:
- True’s shrew mole
- Brown bear
- Travancore flying squirrel
- Golden mouse
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Pygmy rock mouse
- Mzab gundi
- Wolverine
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Highland streaked tenrec
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Highland streaked tenrec:
- Woodland vole with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Dibbler with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Bicolored shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Eurasian water shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Silky anteater with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Little red kaluta with an average maximal age of 3 years