How many baby Sado moles are in a litter?
A Sado mole (Mogera tokudae) 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 39.45 kg (86.96 lbs) and measure 3.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Mogera). An adult Sado mole grows up to a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Sado mole or Tokuda’s mole (Mogera tokudae) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan.
Other animals of the family Talpidae
Sado mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- Balkan mole weighting only 70 grams
- Russian desman with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small Japanese mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small Japanese mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- American shrew mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kobe mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Townsend’s mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese shrew mole weighting only 16 grams
- Roman mole weighting only 92 grams
- Coast mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sado mole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Derby’s woolly opossum
- Lesser dwarf shrew
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
- Brown palm civet
- Hog badger
- Smooth-coated otter
- Amazonian marsh rat
- Tasmanian pygmy possum
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
Animals with the same weight as a Sado mole
What other animals weight around 131 grams (0.29 lbs)?
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 150 grams
- Dent’s vlei rat weighting 120 grams
- Southern African vlei rat weighting 114 grams
- Sula rat weighting 131 grams
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel weighting 109 grams
- Philippine tarsier weighting 116 grams
- Red-crested tree-rat weighting 145 grams
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat weighting 107 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew weighting 112 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sado mole
Also reaching around 16.3 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray mouse lemur gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giant kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Egyptian fruit bat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Western New Guinea mountain rat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Isarog shrew-rat gets as big as 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Chestnut-striped opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)