How many baby Star-nosed moles are in a litter?
A Star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 40 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Condylura). An adult Star-nosed mole grows up to a size of 11.5 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 star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) is a small mole found in moist, low areas in the northern parts of North America. It is the only member of the tribe having a touch organ with more than 25,000 minute sensory receptors, known as Eimer’s organs, with which this hamster-sized mole feels its way around. With the help of its Eimer’s organs, it may be perfectly poised to detect seismic wave vibrations.
Other animals of the family Talpidae
Star-nosed mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- True’s shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese shrew mole weighting only 16 grams
- European mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Altai mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Russian desman with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Large mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-tailed mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kobe mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Star-nosed mole
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Pale field rat
- Wood mouse
- Winter white dwarf hamster
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Middendorf’s vole
- Coyote
- Woolley’s false antechinus
- Edible dormouse
- Long-clawed shrew
- Least weasel
Animals that get as old as a Star-nosed mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Small Japanese mole with 3.5 years
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with 2.5 years
- Smith’s vole with 3.5 years
- African pygmy mouse with 3.08 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with 3 years
- Dibatag with 3 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with 2.67 years
- Little red kaluta with 3 years
- Cape mole-rat with 3 years
- South African pouched mouse with 2.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Star-nosed mole
What other animals weight around 48 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Robbins’s tateril weighting 47 grams
- Horsfield’s fruit bat weighting 56 grams
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa weighting 52 grams
- Arends’s golden mole weighting 52 grams
- Cursor grass mouse weighting 39 grams
- Hylaeamys megacephalus weighting 57 grams
- Ammodile weighting 50 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse weighting 40 grams
- Chestnut tree mouse weighting 46 grams
- Chelemys megalonyx weighting 50 grams
Animals with the same size as a Star-nosed mole
Also reaching around 11.5 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Pteropus brunneus gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red tree vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao mountain rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Masked flying fox gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Julia Creek dunnart gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common rock rat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Aztec mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tarabundí vole gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)