It is hard to guess what a Pyrenean desman weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) on average weights 60 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Pyrenean desman is from the family Talpidae (genus: Galemys). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Pyrenean desmans can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 Pyrenean desman (Galemys pyrenaicus) is a small semiaquatic, globally threatened mammal related to moles and shrews, and, along with the Russian desman (Desmana moschata), is one of the two extant members of the tribe Desmanini. The species occurs in north and central parts of Spain and Portugal, French Pyrenees, and Andorra, but severe range contractions have been documented across its geographic distribution.
Animals of the same family as a Pyrenean desman
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Kobe mole with a weight of 95 grams
- Eastern mole with a weight of 87 grams
- Hairy-tailed mole with a weight of 51 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- European mole with a weight of 86 grams
- Kloss’s mole with 4 babies per litter
- Balkan mole with a weight of 70 grams
- Townsend’s mole with a weight of 70 grams
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Blind mole with a weight of 70 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pyrenean desman
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galemys pyrenaicus:
- Mindomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Plains rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Dusky-footed elephant shrew bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Angular hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Dusky antechinus bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Crete spiny mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Underwood’s bonneted bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Pyrenean desman
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pyrenean desman:
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser hamster-rat with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siberian chipmunk with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pink fairy armadillo with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland thicket rat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pyrenean desman
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Pyrenean desman:
- Polynesian rat
- Forest dormouse
- Djoongari
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Swamp rabbit
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa
- Middle East blind mole-rat
- Asian house shrew
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Holochilus brasiliensis
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pyrenean desman
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pyrenean desman:
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Great Basin pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Peters’s climbing rat with an average maximal age of 5.33 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Dark kangaroo mouse with an average maximal age of 5.42 years
- Northern birch mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years