It is hard to guess what a Southern African hedgehog weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern African hedgehog (Atelerix frontalis) on average weights 337 grams (0.74 lbs).
The Southern African hedgehog is from the family Erinaceidae (genus: Atelerix). It is usually born with about 10 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.2 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Southern African hedgehogs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 Southern African hedgehog (Atelerix frontalis) is a species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Animals of the same family as a Southern African hedgehog
We found other animals of the Erinaceidae family:
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Indian hedgehog with a weight of 171 grams
- Podogymnura truei with a size of 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hugh’s hedgehog with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Daurian hedgehog with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- North African hedgehog with a weight of 931 grams
- European hedgehog with a weight of 789 grams
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog with a weight of 690 grams
- Indian hedgehog with a weight of 171 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern African hedgehog
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Atelerix frontalis:
- Brown rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Camas pocket gopher bringing 360 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Minca spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Catamarca tuco-tuco bringing 316 grams to the scale
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 312 grams to the scale
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat bringing 296 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern African hedgehog
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern African hedgehog:
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ricefield rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern mountain cavy with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sundevall’s jird with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Texas antelope squirrel with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Silky anteater with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern African hedgehog
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Southern African hedgehog: