It is hard to guess what a Mole-like rice tenrec weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mole-like rice tenrec (Oryzorictes talpoides) on average weights 39 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Mole-like rice tenrec is from the family Tenrecidae (genus: Oryzorictes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.3 cm (0′ 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 mole-like rice tenrec (Oryzorictes hova), also known as the fossorial tenrec or hova rice tenrec, is a species of mammal in the tenrec family. Like all other tenrecs, it is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, swamps, freshwater lakes, irrigated land, and seasonally flooded agricultural land. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Mole-like rice tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Tailless tenrec with a weight of 894 grams
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 10 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 4 grams
- Highland streaked tenrec with a weight of 102 grams
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 22 grams
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 45 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a weight of 12 grams
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 9 grams
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a weight of 160 grams
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 10 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mole-like rice tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oryzorictes talpoides:
- Sepia short-tailed opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Tonatia silvicola bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Great stripe-faced bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Woolly horseshoe bat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Greater noctule bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Guatemalan vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Painted spiny pocket mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mole-like rice tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mole-like rice tenrec:
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-rumped leaf-eared mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Uinta chipmunk with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)