How many baby Coast moles are in a litter?
A Coast mole (Scapanus orarius) 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 Coast mole grows up to a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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 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.
Other animals of the family Talpidae
Coast mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- Japanese shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blind mole weighting only 70 grams
- Echigo mole weighting only 163 grams
- Balkan mole weighting only 70 grams
- Large mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- European mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Roman mole weighting only 92 grams
- Russian desman with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-footed mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small Japanese mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Coast mole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Egyptian mongoose
- Water deer
- Temminck’s mouse
- Mountain hare
- Acacia rat
- Kinabalu squirrel
- Large mole
- Volcano harvest mouse
- Yellow-throated marten
- Kashmir flying squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Coast mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- African wading rat with 3 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with 3.25 years
- Small Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Red hocicudo with 2.58 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with 2.67 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 2.75 years
- New Guinean quoll with 3 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with 3.08 years
- Water opossum with 3 years
- Silvery mole-rat with 3.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Coast mole
What other animals weight around 61 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Chelemys megalonyx weighting 50 grams
- Oecomys phaeotis weighting 73 grams
- Natal multimammate mouse weighting 62 grams
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting 49 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting 60 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure weighting 54 grams
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse weighting 55 grams
- Cliff chipmunk weighting 63 grams
- Senegal gerbil weighting 60 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting 49 grams
Animals with the same size as a Coast mole
Also reaching around 12.3 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common rock rat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Kimberley rock rat gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Durango chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chiruromys lamia gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Goldman’s woodrat gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Handley’s slender opossum gets as big as 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)