How many baby Japanese mountain moles are in a litter?
A Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) 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 150 grams (0.33 lbs) and measure 5.3 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Euroscaptor). An adult Japanese mountain mole grows up to a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. Although the Japanese mountain mole is currently classified in the genus Euroscaptor, a study published by the American Society of Mammalogists suggests that they do not truly belong to this genus because of earlier evolutionary divergence from other Euroscaptor species.In terms of the mole’s Morphology,recently the taxonomic position of the Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) was reassessed and this was based on its external and skeletal morphologies. It was found that the muzzle of the moles showed a unique groove on the ventral side of it and it separates it from the rest of the moles in the family. The study was conducted recently in 2016.[1][2]
Other animals of the family Talpidae
Japanese mountain mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- Russian desman with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pyrenean desman with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Spanish mole weighting only 48 grams
- Inquisitive shrew mole raching a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Coast mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Altai mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- American shrew mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Blind mole weighting only 70 grams
- Townsend’s mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Japanese mountain mole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Gray-footed chipmunk
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Shipton’s mountain cavy
- Lesser mole-rat
- Emin’s gerbil
- Columbian ground squirrel
- Sado mole
- Peruvian tuco-tuco
- Kaiser’s rock rat
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse
Animals that get as old as a Japanese mountain mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Allen’s big-eared bat with 3.17 years
- Bicolored shrew with 3 years
- Acacia rat with 3.5 years
- Coast mole with 3 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 2.67 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with 3.25 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with 3.5 years
- Dibatag with 3 years
- Broad-footed mole with 3 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 3.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Japanese mountain mole
What other animals weight around 25 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Lesser long-nosed bat weighting 22 grams
- São Paulo grass mouse weighting 27 grams
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse weighting 30 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger weighting 26 grams
- Least gerbil weighting 26 grams
- Cotton mouse weighting 27 grams
- Tilda’s yellow-shouldered bat weighting 24 grams
- Long-tongued fruit bat weighting 21 grams
- Short-palated fruit bat weighting 28 grams
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat weighting 21 grams
Animals with the same size as a Japanese mountain mole
Also reaching around 9 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Rock vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Emilia’s gracile opossum gets as big as 7.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Townsend’s mole gets as big as 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- One-toothed shrew mouse gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rufous mouse opossum gets as big as 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smith’s shrew gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malayan water shrew gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy-legged vampire bat gets as big as 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)