It is hard to guess what a Lesser hedgehog tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) on average weights 160 grams (0.35 lbs).
The Lesser hedgehog tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Echinops). It is usually born with about 7 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 13 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Lesser hedgehog tenrecs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae.It is the only species in the genus Echinops and is named in honour of Charles Telfair.
Animals of the same family as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 4 grams
- Tailless tenrec with a weight of 894 grams
- Nimba otter shrew with a weight of 69 grams
- Pale shrew tenrec with a weight of 7 grams
- Dryad shrew tenrec with a weight of 40 grams
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 277 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a weight of 35 grams
- Gracile shrew tenrec with a weight of 23 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a weight of 34 grams
- Least shrew tenrec with a weight of 3 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echinops telfairi:
- Lesser stick-nest rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Bryant’s woodrat bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Palawan treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Speke’s pectinator bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Lesser mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Lesser mole-rat bringing 188 grams to the scale
- American pika bringing 158 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lesser hedgehog tenrec:
- Admiralty flying fox with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Nimba otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Maritime striped squirrel with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray tree rat with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fijian monkey-faced bat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Steppe pika with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec:
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Sandhill dunnart
- Slender shrew
- Persian jird
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Middendorf’s vole
- Reed vole
- Hispid cotton rat
- Northern grass mouse
- Mongolian gerbil
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec:
- Sharpe’s grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Squirrel glider with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Maned wolf with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Coypu with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Grant’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with an average maximal age of 13.5 years