How big does a Blind mole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Blind mole (Talpa caeca) reaches an average size of 12 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 70 grams (0.15 lbs). The Blind mole (genus: Talpa) is a member of the family Talpidae.
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 blind mole (Talpa caeca), also known as the Mediterranean mole, is a mole found in the Mediterranean region. It is similar to the European mole, differing most prominently in having eyes covered with skin. It is found in Albania, France, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Animals of the same family as a Blind mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-footed mole with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pyrenean desman with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same size as a Blind mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Blind mole:
- Mountain water rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Macroscelides proboscideus with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tschudi’s slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Buller’s chipmunk with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian garden dormouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Blind mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Talpa caeca:
- Southern mole vole bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Siskiyou chipmunk bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Oecomys flavicans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Chestnut white-bellied rat bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Van Deusen’s rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed jird bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Charming thicket rat bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Burrowing chinchilla mouse bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Patagonian opossum bringing 78 grams to the scale