It is hard to guess what a Hairy-tailed mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri) on average weights 51 grams (0.11 lbs).
The Hairy-tailed mole is from the family Talpidae (genus: Parascalops). It is usually born with about 6 grams (0.01 lbs). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.7 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Hairy-tailed moles can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 4.
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 hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri), also known as Brewer’s mole, is a medium-sized North American mole. It is the only member of the genus Parascalops. The species epithet breweri refers to Thomas Mayo Brewer, an American naturalist.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy-tailed mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Kloss’s mole with 4 babies per litter
- Japanese mole with a weight of 82 grams
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Eastern mole with a weight of 87 grams
- Echigo mole with a weight of 163 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Roman mole with a weight of 92 grams
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- American shrew mole with a weight of 9 grams
- Townsend’s mole with a weight of 70 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-tailed mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Parascalops breweri:
- Chaco grass mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Minor epauletted fruit bat bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Great roundleaf bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Alexander’s bush squirrel bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Lesser musky fruit bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Large vesper mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Julia Creek dunnart bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Naked-rumped pouched bat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-tailed mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hairy-tailed mole:
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindoro climbing rat with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiapan deer mouse with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tschudi’s slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hairy-tailed mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Hairy-tailed mole:
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel
- Groundhog
- Hooded skunk
- El Carrizo deer mouse
- Turkestan rat
- Camas pocket gopher
- Andean vesper mouse
- Spinifex hopping mouse
- Red squirrel
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hairy-tailed mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hairy-tailed mole:
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Mountain pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Sandhill dunnart with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years