What is the maximal age a Moonrat reaches?
An adult Moonrat (Echinosorex gymnura) usually gets as old as 7 years.
Moonrats are around 37 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 14 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). As a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Echinosorex), a Moonrat caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″).
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 moonrat (Echinosorex gymnura) is a southeast Asian species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae (hedgehogs and gymnures). It is the only species in the genus Echinosorex. The moonrat is a fairly small, primarily carnivorous animal which, despite its name, is not closely related to rats or other rodents. The scientific name is sometimes given as Echinosorex gymnurus, but this is incorrect.
Animals of the same family as a Moonrat
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Erinaceidae):
- Hainan gymnure bringing the scale to 58 grams
- Short-tailed gymnure with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hainan gymnure bringing the scale to 52 grams
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-eared hedgehog becoming 6.75 years old
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dinagat gymnure getting as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog becoming 4.5 years old
- Podogymnura truei getting as big as 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals that reach the same age as Moonrat
With an average age of 7 years, Moonrat are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Long-eared hedgehog usually reaching 6.75 years
- Townsend’s chipmunk usually reaching 7 years
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 8 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel usually reaching 7.08 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa usually reaching 6 years
- Kowari usually reaching 7 years
- European mole usually reaching 7 years
- Greater bulldog bat usually reaching 5.75 years
- North African hedgehog usually reaching 7 years
- Feathertail glider usually reaching 7.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Moonrat
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Cuvier’s beaked whale
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Mentawai langur
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat
- Kolan vole
- Olive baboon
- Attwater’s pocket gopher
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Arctocephalus forsteri
- Silky anteater
Weighting as much as Moonrat
A fully grown Moonrat reaches around 787 grams (1.74 lbs). So do these animals:
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine with 751 grams
- Chiriqui pocket gopher with 650 grams
- Indian flying fox with 822 grams
- Mexican fox squirrel with 697 grams
- Yellow mongoose with 694 grams
- David’s echymipera with 817 grams
- Black and red bush squirrel with 692 grams
- Meerkat with 730 grams
- Spix’s night monkey with 873 grams
- Gray-bellied night monkey with 873 grams
Animals as big as a Moonrat
Those animals grow as big as a Moonrat:
- Gambian mongoose with 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Eastern spotted skunk with 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mexican fox squirrel with 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Banded mongoose with 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel with 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Woodlark cuscus with 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Red-handed tamarin with 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-bearded flying fox with 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bagobo rat with 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)