What is the maximal age a Hottentot golden mole reaches?
An adult Hottentot golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus) usually gets as old as 1 years.
When born, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Chrysochloridae family (genus: Amblysomus), a Hottentot golden mole caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Hottentot golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus) is a species of mammal in the golden mole family, Chrysochloridae. It is found in South Africa, Eswatini, and possibly Lesotho. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation, temperate grassland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, sandy shores, arable land, pastureland, plantations, rural gardens, urban areas, and introduced vegetation.It has several subspecies, including the Zulu golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus iris) and Knysna golden mole (Amblysomus iris corriae).In 2013 it was discovered that Hottentot golden moles prefer mates with larger penises.
Animals of the same family as a Hottentot golden mole
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Chrysochloridae):
- Visagie’s golden mole getting as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Arends’s golden mole bringing the scale to 52 grams
- Van Zyl’s golden mole getting as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cape golden mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Juliana’s golden mole bringing the scale to 21 grams
- Giant golden mole becoming 4 years old
- De Winton’s golden mole getting as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gunning’s golden mole getting as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gunning’s golden mole getting as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals that reach the same age as Hottentot golden mole
With an average age of 1 years, Hottentot golden mole are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Northern red-sided opossum usually reaching 1 years
- Olive grass mouse usually reaching 1 years
- Olive grass mouse usually reaching 1 years
- Wood lemming usually reaching 1 years
- Crowned shrew usually reaching 1.08 years
- Yellow-sided opossum usually reaching 1 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew usually reaching 1.08 years
- Myosorex varius usually reaching 1 years
- Meadow vole usually reaching 0.92 years
Animals with the same number of babies Hottentot golden mole
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
- Greater mouse-deer
- Toque macaque
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo
- Serotine bat
- Little brown bat
- Silky anteater
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Burchell’s zebra
Weighting as much as Hottentot golden mole
A fully grown Hottentot golden mole reaches around 65 grams (0.14 lbs). So do these animals:
- Oxymycterus hucucha with 67 grams
- Euryoryzomys nitidus with 55 grams
- Oecomys trinitatis with 73 grams
- Unicolored Oldfield mouse with 77 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse with 54 grams
- Angular hocicudo with 67 grams
- Oecomys paricola with 73 grams
- Emin’s gerbil with 52 grams
- Euryoryzomys lamia with 60 grams
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 60 grams
Animals as big as a Hottentot golden mole
Those animals grow as big as a Hottentot golden mole:
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain water rat with 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Alpine chipmunk with 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern gracile opossum with 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Coast mole with 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-sided opossum with 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)