How many baby True’s shrew moles are in a litter?
A True’s shrew mole (Urotrichus pilirostris) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 39 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 20 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Urotrichus). An adult True’s shrew mole grows up to a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″).
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.
True’s shrew mole (Dymecodon pilirostris) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan (Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu) and is a common species above 1000 meters in grassland, shrubland and forest.It is the only species in the genus Dymecodon. It has sometimes been considered belonging to the genus Urotrichus.
Other animals of the family Talpidae
True’s shrew mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- Japanese shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small Japanese mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Echigo mole weighting only 163 grams
- Russian desman with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Large mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- European mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Star-nosed mole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-footed mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small Japanese mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with True’s shrew mole
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat
- Brown deer mouse
- Otter civet
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Angoni vlei rat
- Greater dwarf shrew
- Cape ground squirrel
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Greater mole-rat
Animals with the same weight as a True’s shrew mole
What other animals weight around 14 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Buffy flower bat weighting 16 grams
- Microryzomys altissimus weighting 13 grams
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat weighting 13 grams
- Broad-eared bat weighting 13 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 16 grams
- Greater long-fingered bat weighting 14 grams
- Narrow-winged pipistrelle weighting 15 grams
- American water shrew weighting 13 grams
- Desert pocket mouse weighting 15 grams
- Malayan slit-faced bat weighting 14 grams
Animals with the same size as a True’s shrew mole
Also reaching around 6.5 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Little yellow-shouldered bat gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian slit-faced bat gets as big as 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Japanese dormouse gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater false vampire bat gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- True’s shrew mole gets as big as 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Slender shrew gets as big as 5.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Tailed tailless bat gets as big as 5.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale shrew tenrec gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Crawford’s gray shrew gets as big as 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Egyptian tomb bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)