It is hard to guess what a Lowland streaked tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) on average weights 129 grams (0.28 lbs).
The Lowland 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 2.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.5 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Lowland streaked tenrecs can have babies 2 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 lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) is a small tenrec found in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Lowland streaked tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 3 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a weight of 112 grams
- Naked-nosed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 45 grams
- Gracile shrew tenrec with a weight of 23 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 4 grams
- Web-footed tenrec with a weight of 77 grams
- Giant otter shrew with a weight of 685 grams
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec with a weight of 18 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland streaked tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemicentetes semispinosus:
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Rajah spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Mountain degu bringing 154 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 110 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Alston’s mouse opossum bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Zanzibar bushbaby bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Round-tailed ground squirrel bringing 148 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Lowland streaked tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lowland streaked tenrec:
- Royle’s pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Texas antelope squirrel with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red rock rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Plantain squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Whitehead’s spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ornate flying fox with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lowland streaked tenrec
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Lowland streaked tenrec:
- Asian garden dormouse
- Yellow-pine chipmunk
- Reed vole
- Small vesper mouse
- Wongai ningaui
- Edible dormouse
- Persian jird
- Corsac fox
- Bobrinski’s jerboa
- Ural field mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Lowland streaked tenrec
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Lowland streaked tenrec:
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Bicolored shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Marsh rice rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Woodland vole with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Southwestern myotis with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Southern bog lemming with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with an average maximal age of 2.83 years