How many baby Small Japanese moles are in a litter?
A Small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Mogera). An adult Small Japanese mole grows up to a size of 14 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 small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan. Even though they are extinct in central Tokyo, they are found in the grounds of the Imperial Palace.
Other animals of the family Talpidae
Small Japanese mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- Japanese shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- European mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Star-nosed mole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- True’s shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-tailed mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sado mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese mountain mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Coast mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- True’s shrew mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Small Japanese mole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Kobe mole
- Coast mole
- Balochistan gerbil
- Greater hedgehog tenrec
- Severtzov’s jerboa
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Chestnut climbing mouse
- Small Japanese mole
- Cape gerbil
- Silky pocket mouse
Animals that get as old as a Small Japanese mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.5 years:
- Red-tailed phascogale with 3 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with 3.33 years
- Günther’s vole with 3.83 years
- New Guinean quoll with 3 years
- Northern common cuscus with 4 years
- North African elephant shrew with 3 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Cape mole-rat with 3 years
- Silvery mole-rat with 3.08 years
- Northern pocket gopher with 3.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Small Japanese mole
What other animals weight around 65 grams (0.14 lbs)?
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat weighting 71 grams
- Beady-eyed mouse weighting 77 grams
- One-striped opossum weighting 55 grams
- Vampyriscus nymphaea weighting 69 grams
- Aquatic rat weighting 66 grams
- Oecomys phaeotis weighting 73 grams
- Brown deer mouse weighting 66 grams
- Web-footed tenrec weighting 77 grams
- Jentink’s flying squirrel weighting 56 grams
- Oecomys speciosus weighting 73 grams
Animals with the same size as a Small Japanese mole
Also reaching around 14 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Short-haired water rat gets as big as 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sonoma chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-eared chipmunk gets as big as 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican mouse opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mazama pocket gopher gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)