It is hard to guess what a Stuhlmann’s golden mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Stuhlmann’s golden mole (Chrysochloris stuhlmanni) on average weights 56 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Stuhlmann’s golden mole is from the family Chrysochloridae (genus: Chrysochloris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Stuhlmann’s golden mole (Chrysochloris stuhlmanni) is a species of mammal in the family Chrysochloridae. It is found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, arable land, and pastureland.
Animals of the same family as a Stuhlmann’s golden mole
We found other animals of the Chrysochloridae family:
- Cape golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a weight of 52 grams
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a weight of 22 grams
- Yellow golden mole with a weight of 24 grams
- Grant’s golden mole with a weight of 22 grams
- Sclater’s golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Rough-haired golden mole with a weight of 112 grams
- Giant golden mole with a weight of 440 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Stuhlmann’s golden mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chrysochloris stuhlmanni:
- Cape elephant shrew bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Champion’s tree mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Van Deusen’s rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Mozambique thicket rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Aegialomys galapagoensis bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Cave nectar bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Insular vole bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Painted big-eared mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Stuhlmann’s golden mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Stuhlmann’s golden mole:
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky hopping mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pteropus brunneus with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Asian garden dormouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray mouse lemur with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)