It is hard to guess what a Japanese mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Japanese mole (Mogera wogura) on average weights 82 grams (0.18 lbs).
The Japanese mole is from the family Talpidae (genus: Mogera). They can live for up to 3.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.3 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Japanese 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 Japanese mole (Mogera wogura), also known as Temminck’s mole, is a species of mole native to East Asia. Its range extends south from Japan. A solitary and diurnal species, it can live for up to 3.5 years in the wild.
Animals of the same family as a Japanese mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Spanish mole with a weight of 48 grams
- Balkan mole with a weight of 70 grams
- Japanese mountain mole with a weight of 25 grams
- Gansu mole with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a weight of 16 grams
- True’s shrew mole with a weight of 15 grams
- Eastern mole with a weight of 87 grams
- Coast mole with a weight of 61 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Japanese mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mogera wogura:
- Mazama pocket gopher bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Dibbler bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Tiny tuco-tuco bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s chipmunk bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Water vole (North America) bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Big-eared hopping mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Japanese mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Japanese mole:
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Chestnut tree mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rajah spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- California mouse with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Durango chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gansu pika with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Japanese mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Japanese mole:
- Western chestnut mouse
- Borneo black-banded squirrel
- Eastern woodrat
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa
- Canyon mouse
- Yucatan squirrel
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Whitehead’s spiny rat
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- American hog-nosed skunk
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Japanese mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Japanese mole:
- Japanese shrew mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Ooldea dunnart with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- European hamster with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Alpine pika with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Broad-footed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lesser bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 3.67 years