How many baby European moles are in a litter?
A European mole (Talpa europaea) 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 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Talpa). An adult European mole grows up to a size of 12.9 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 European mole (Talpa europaea) is a mammal of the order Eulipotyphla. It is also known as the common mole and the northern mole.This mole lives in a tunnel system, which it constantly extends. It uses these tunnels to hunt its prey. Under normal conditions the displaced earth is pushed to the surface, resulting in the characteristic molehills. It feeds mainly on earthworms, but also on insects, centipedes and even mice and shrews. Its saliva contains toxins which paralyze earthworms in particular.
Other animals of the family Talpidae
European mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- Sado mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- True’s shrew mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kobe mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Gansu mole raching a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Echigo mole weighting only 163 grams
- Altai mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Inquisitive shrew mole raching a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Blind mole weighting only 70 grams
- Balkan mole weighting only 70 grams
- Himalayan mole becoming 1.5 years old
Animals that share a litter size with European mole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Chilean rock rat
- Molina’s grass mouse
- Mexican cottontail
- Nelson’s pocket mouse
- Hoary fox
- American hog-nosed skunk
- Greater red musk shrew
- Namaqua rock rat
- Western mouse
- Lesser mole-rat
Animals that get as old as a European mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- Woylie with 6.5 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 7 years
- Spectral bat with 6.5 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 6 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 8 years
- Serotine bat with 6 years
- Slender mongoose with 6 years
- Least chipmunk with 6.25 years
- North African hedgehog with 7 years
- Feathertail glider with 7.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a European mole
What other animals weight around 86 grams (0.19 lbs)?
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Heath mouse weighting 72 grams
- North American brown lemming weighting 69 grams
- Western chestnut mouse weighting 70 grams
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Cape York melomys weighting 70 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 80 grams
- Andean mouse weighting 69 grams
- Biting chinchilla mouse weighting 82 grams
Animals with the same size as a European mole
Also reaching around 12.9 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Plains rat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gaumer’s spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Central rock rat gets as big as 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sugar glider gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Silver mountain vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)