How big does a Hairy-tailed mole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri) reaches an average size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 5 years, they grow from 6 grams (0.01 lbs) to 51 grams (0.11 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Hairy-tailed moles have 4 babies about 1 times per year. The Hairy-tailed mole (genus: Parascalops) 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 hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri), also known as Brewer’s mole, is a medium-sized North American mole. It is the only member of the genus Parascalops. The species epithet breweri refers to Thomas Mayo Brewer, an American naturalist.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy-tailed mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Japanese mountain mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Broad-footed mole with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Spanish mole with a weight of 48 grams
- Roman mole with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Balkan mole with a weight of 70 grams
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kobe mole with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-tailed mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hairy-tailed mole:
- Mole-like rice tenrec with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ghost bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Musser’s shrew mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-footed water rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pseudoryzomys with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hairy-tailed mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Hairy-tailed mole:
- Bank vole
- San Joaquin pocket mouse
- Nyika climbing mouse
- Japanese dormouse
- Turkestan rat
- Indian bush rat
- Least chipmunk
- Common kusimanse
- Tropical pocket gopher
- Red-tailed chipmunk
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hairy-tailed mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hairy-tailed mole:
- European hamster with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Great gerbil with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Euphrates jerboa with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Greater bulldog bat with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Yellow-pine chipmunk with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Gansu pika with an average maximal age of 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-tailed mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Parascalops breweri:
- Great roundleaf bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Black-bellied fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Yellow-pine chipmunk bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Single-striped grass mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys chapmani bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Osgood’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Günther’s vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Webb’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 61 grams to the scale