It is hard to guess what a Echigo mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Echigo mole (Mogera etigo) on average weights 163 grams (0.36 lbs).
The Echigo mole is from the family Talpidae (genus: Mogera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.9 cm (0′ 7″). Normally, Echigo moles can have babies 1 times a year.
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 Echigo mole (Mogera etigo) is an endangered species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan, being found only on the Echigo plain, Niigata prefecture.
Animals of the same family as a Echigo mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Sado mole with a weight of 131 grams
- Kobe mole with a weight of 95 grams
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan mole with a weight of 60 grams
- Roman mole with a weight of 92 grams
- Eastern mole with a weight of 87 grams
- Japanese mountain mole with a weight of 25 grams
- Townsend’s mole with a weight of 70 grams
- Star-nosed mole with a weight of 48 grams
- Japanese mole with a weight of 82 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Echigo mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mogera etigo:
- Molaccan prehensile-tailed rat bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Buettikofer’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Reddish tuco-tuco bringing 173 grams to the scale
- Sanborn’s squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Mountain spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Masked white-tailed rat bringing 149 grams to the scale
- Zanzibar bushbaby bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Fossorial giant rat bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Lunda rope squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Gray tree rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Echigo mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Echigo mole:
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Eastern rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gregarious short-tailed rat with a size of 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sonoran woodrat with a size of 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tawitawi forest rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Biak glider with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)