It is hard to guess what a Coast mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Coast mole (Scapanus orarius) on average weights 61 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Coast mole is from the family Talpidae (genus: Scapanus). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.3 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Coast moles can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The coast mole or Pacific mole (Scapanus orarius) is a medium-sized North American mole found in forested and open areas with moist soils along the Pacific coast from southwestern British Columbia to northwestern California.
Animals of the same family as a Coast mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Chinese shrew mole with a weight of 16 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan mole with a weight of 60 grams
- Small Japanese mole with a weight of 65 grams
- Altai mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kobe mole with a weight of 95 grams
- Kloss’s mole with 4 babies per litter
- Hairy-tailed mole with a weight of 51 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Coast mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Scapanus orarius:
- Euryoryzomys lamia bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Cave nectar bat bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed gymnure bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Argentine hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Palmer’s chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Polynesian rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Andean swamp rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Van Deusen’s rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Coast mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Coast mole:
- Fawn antechinus with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chipmunk with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Monito del monte with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Coast mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Coast mole:
- Trowbridge’s shrew
- European wildcat
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Southern big-eared mouse
- White-tailed rat
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa
- Asian house shrew
- Oldfield mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Coast mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Coast mole:
- Eastern woodrat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Southwestern myotis with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Alpine pika with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Acacia rat with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Kultarr with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years