It is hard to guess what a Yellow golden mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow golden mole (Calcochloris obtusirostris) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Yellow golden mole is from the family Chrysochloridae (genus: Calcochloris). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Yellow golden moles have 2 babies per litter.
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 yellow golden mole (Calcochloris obtusirostris) is a species of mammal in the family Chrysochloridae. It is found in Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, arable land, pastureland, plantations, and rural gardens.Yellow golden moles are likely to dig at the base of trees and create underground “nest” in which they forage for food. Its diet mainly consists of insects, bugs, small lizards, flies, and other tiny animals found underground.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow golden mole
We found other animals of the Chrysochloridae family:
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Stuhlmann’s golden mole with a weight of 56 grams
- Arends’s golden mole with a weight of 52 grams
- Rough-haired golden mole with a weight of 112 grams
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape golden mole with a weight of 39 grams
- Hottentot golden mole with a weight of 65 grams
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow golden mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Calcochloris obtusirostris:
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- New Zealand greater short-tailed bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Aberdare mole shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Southern grasshopper mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Little desert pocket mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Andean vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Fox’s shrew bringing 21 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Harlequin bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Yellow golden mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Yellow golden mole:
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cotton mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Nicobar shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-bellied slender opossum with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow golden mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Yellow golden mole: