How big does a Lowland streaked tenrec get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) reaches an average size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 2.67 years, they grow from 7 grams (0.02 lbs) to 129 grams (0.28 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Lowland streaked tenrecs have 5 babies about 2 times per year. The Lowland streaked tenrec (genus: Hemicentetes) is a member of the family Tenrecidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) is a small tenrec found in Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Lowland streaked tenrec
We found other animals of the Tenrecidae family:
- Pygmy shrew tenrec with a weight of 4 grams
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 8 grams
- Tailless tenrec with a size of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Montane shrew tenrec with a weight of 13 grams
- Giant otter shrew with a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″)
- Pale shrew tenrec with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater long-tailed shrew tenrec with a weight of 10 grams
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Gracile shrew tenrec with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lowland streaked tenrec
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Lowland streaked tenrec:
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Betsileo short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- American red squirrel with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-footed mole with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Lowland streaked tenrec
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Lowland streaked tenrec:
- Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
- Southern red-backed vole
- Mongolian gerbil
- Middendorf’s vole
- Woolley’s false antechinus
- Tundra vole
- Social vole
- Buxton’s jird
- Olive grass mouse
- Piebald shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Lowland streaked tenrec
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Lowland streaked tenrec:
- White-footed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Red hocicudo with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- White-footed mouse with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- North African elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Eastern woodrat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland streaked tenrec
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemicentetes semispinosus:
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Texas kangaroo rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Indian palm squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 151 grams to the scale
- Sado mole bringing 131 grams to the scale
- Collared pika bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Slender treeshrew bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Zanzibar bushbaby bringing 148 grams to the scale