It is hard to guess what a Star-nosed mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) on average weights 48 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Star-nosed mole is from the family Talpidae (genus: Condylura). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.5 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Star-nosed moles can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) is a small mole found in moist, low areas in the northern parts of North America. It is the only member of the tribe having a touch organ with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors, known as Eimer’s organs, with which this hamster-sized mole feels its way around. With the help of its Eimer’s organs, it may be perfectly poised to detect seismic wave vibrations.
Animals of the same family as a Star-nosed mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- True’s shrew mole with a weight of 14 grams
- Coast mole with a weight of 61 grams
- Altai mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern mole with a weight of 87 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan mole with a weight of 60 grams
- Spanish mole with a weight of 48 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Balkan mole with a weight of 70 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Star-nosed mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Condylura cristata:
- Hairy fruit-eating bat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied tree mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Himalayan striped squirrel bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Jamaican fruit bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Greater bulldog bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Northern mole vole bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Star-nosed mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Star-nosed mole:
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Yellow golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Silver mountain vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Akodon spegazzinii with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern water rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Star-nosed mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Star-nosed mole:
- Middendorf’s vole
- Cliff chipmunk
- Long-clawed shrew
- Edible dormouse
- Wongai ningaui
- Striped field mouse
- Shaw’s jird
- Black rat
- Sagebrush vole
- Long-tailed vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Star-nosed mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Star-nosed mole:
- South African pouched mouse with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Japanese shrew mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Typical striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- African wading rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years