It is hard to guess what a Northeast African mole-rat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northeast African mole-rat (Tachyoryctes splendens) on average weights 227 grams (0.5 lbs).
The Northeast African mole-rat is from the family Muridae (genus: Tachyoryctes). It is usually born with about 15 grams (0.03 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Northeast African mole-rats can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 northeast African mole-rat (Tachyoryctes splendens) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae and is found in Ethiopia, Somalia, and northwest Kenya. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, dry savanna, high-altitude shrubland and grassland. It lives a solitary existence underground and produces a small litter of pups twice a year, in the two rainy seasons. Some taxonomic authorities lump this species, along with a number of others in the genus, in which case the English name East African mole-rat is used.
Animals of the same family as a Northeast African mole-rat
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Oecomys bicolor with a weight of 37 grams
- Northern hopping mouse with a weight of 38 grams
- Small hocicudo with a weight of 67 grams
- Günther’s vole with a weight of 50 grams
- Deroo’s mouse with a weight of 32 grams
- Savi’s pine vole with a weight of 20 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- Flat-haired mouse with a weight of 29 grams
- Inca Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a weight of 355 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northeast African mole-rat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tachyoryctes splendens:
- Golden angwantibo bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Senegal bushbaby bringing 216 grams to the scale
- Lundomys bringing 238 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Collared tuco-tuco bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Indochinese flying squirrel bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Richmond’s squirrel bringing 237 grams to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Shipton’s mountain cavy bringing 185 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northeast African mole-rat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northeast African mole-rat:
- Black-striped squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Microcebus coquereli with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Malayan field rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Earless water rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Culion tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ochre bush squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northeast African mole-rat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Northeast African mole-rat: