How many baby True’s shrew moles are in a litter?
A True’s shrew mole (Dymecodon pilirostris) 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 674 grams (1.49 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Dymecodon). 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:
- Inquisitive shrew mole raching a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Père David’s mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blind mole weighting only 70 grams
- Roman mole weighting only 92 grams
- Himalayan mole becoming 1.5 years old
- Japanese mountain mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese shrew mole weighting only 16 grams
- Coast mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Spanish mole weighting only 48 grams
- Broad-footed mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with True’s shrew mole
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Desert warthog
- Chiriqui brown mouse
- Damaraland mole-rat
- Hispid hare
- Reddish-gray musk shrew
- Yellow-throated marten
- Desert mouse
- Arctic lemming
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- Lesser mole-rat
Animals with the same weight as a True’s shrew mole
What other animals weight around 15 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Silky short-tailed bat weighting 14 grams
- Ultimate shrew weighting 16 grams
- Tent-making bat weighting 16 grams
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse weighting 17 grams
- Southern dog-faced bat weighting 12 grams
- Pallid large-footed myotis weighting 12 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat weighting 14 grams
- Malagasy slit-faced bat weighting 17 grams
- Toltec fruit-eating bat weighting 15 grams
- Small vesper mouse 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:
- Merriam’s shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater white-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater mouse-eared bat gets as big as 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Bicolored musk shrew gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common shrew gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-clawed shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Taiga shrew gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Jamaican fruit bat gets as big as 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)