How big does a Coast mole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Coast mole (Scapanus orarius) reaches an average size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 3 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 61 grams (0.13 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Coast moles have 3 babies about 1 times per year. The Coast mole (genus: Scapanus) 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 coast mole or Pacific mole (Scapanus orarius) is a medium-sized North American mole found in forested and open areas with moist soils along the Pacific coast from southwestern British Columbia to northwestern California.
Animals of the same family as a Coast mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Kobe mole with 3 babies per litter
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pyrenean desman with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy-tailed mole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a Coast mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Coast mole:
- Robert’s hocicudo with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Biak glider with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Coast mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Coast mole:
- Acacia rat
- Long-clawed mole vole
- Gansu pika
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse
- Himalayan field rat
- Kivu long-haired shrew
- South American coati
- Guinea pig
- Northern grasshopper mouse
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Coast mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Coast mole:
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Common opossum with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Little long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Northern quoll with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Alpine pika with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- African wading rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Coast mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scapanus orarius:
- Obi mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Nimba otter shrew bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Issel’s groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi rousette bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Gray-footed chipmunk bringing 70 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed dasyure bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Dolorous grass mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- South African pouched mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Lodgepole chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale