It is hard to guess what a Indian hedgehog weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Indian hedgehog (Hemiechinus micropus) on average weights 171 grams (0.38 lbs).
The Indian hedgehog is from the family Erinaceidae (genus: Hemiechinus). It is usually born with about 8 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Indian hedgehogs can have babies 1 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 Indian hedgehog (Paraechinus micropus) is a species of hedgehog native to India and Pakistan. It mainly lives in sandy desert areas but can be found in other environments.
Animals of the same family as a Indian hedgehog
We found other animals of the Erinaceidae family:
- Southern African hedgehog with a weight of 337 grams
- Four-toed hedgehog with a weight of 311 grams
- Short-tailed gymnure with a weight of 60 grams
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Moonrat with a weight of 787 grams
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a weight of 213 grams
- Daurian hedgehog with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog with a weight of 690 grams
- Brandt’s hedgehog with a weight of 213 grams
- Desert hedgehog with a weight of 352 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Indian hedgehog
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemiechinus micropus:
- Mohol bushbaby bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel bringing 199 grams to the scale
- Lesser stick-nest rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Brazilian squirrel bringing 177 grams to the scale
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Talas tuco-tuco bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Little golden-mantled flying fox bringing 184 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Indian hedgehog
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Indian hedgehog:
- Nectomys squamipes with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Whiskered flying squirrel with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Robust yellow bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Maxomys baeodon with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Stein’s rat with a size of 17.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-footed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Echigo mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Indian hedgehog
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Indian hedgehog: