How many baby Broad-footed moles are in a litter?
A Broad-footed mole (Scapanus latimanus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 40 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Scapanus). An adult Broad-footed mole grows up to a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The broad-footed mole (Scapanus latimanus) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is found in Baja California in Mexico and in California, Nevada and Oregon in the United States at elevations up to 3000 m above sea level.
Other animals of the family Talpidae
Broad-footed mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- Kobe mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Altai mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Echigo mole weighting only 163 grams
- Coast mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- True’s shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sado mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pyrenean desman with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese shrew mole weighting only 16 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Broad-footed mole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Western red-backed vole
- Black-footed ferret
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
- Northern mole vole
- Deroo’s mouse
- Short-tailed mongoose
- Namaqua rock rat
- Alpine pika
- Transbaikal zokor
- Bunny rat
Animals that get as old as a Broad-footed mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Monito del monte with 3.17 years
- Lutrine opossum with 3 years
- Common opossum with 2.67 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with 2.42 years
- Brown antechinus with 3 years
- North African elephant shrew with 3 years
- Cape mole-rat with 3 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with 3.33 years
- Talas tuco-tuco with 3 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with 2.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-footed mole
What other animals weight around 61 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Cape York melomys weighting 70 grams
- Pittier’s crab-eating rat weighting 69 grams
- Spectacled dormouse weighting 68 grams
- Oecomys rex weighting 73 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur weighting 68 grams
- Broad-footed climbing mouse weighting 57 grams
- Ivory Coast rat weighting 52 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew weighting 70 grams
- Four-toed jerboa weighting 52 grams
- Nilgiri striped squirrel weighting 70 grams
Animals with the same size as a Broad-footed mole
Also reaching around 14.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Mexican deer mouse gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large tree mouse gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dayak fruit bat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bramble Cay melomys gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Andean caenolestid gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)