It is hard to guess what a Sado mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sado mole (Mogera tokudae) on average weights 131 grams (0.29 lbs).
The Sado mole is from the family Talpidae (genus: Mogera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.3 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Sado 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 Sado mole or Tokuda’s mole (Mogera tokudae) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan.
Animals of the same family as a Sado mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Spanish mole with a weight of 48 grams
- Coast mole with a weight of 61 grams
- Japanese mountain mole with a weight of 25 grams
- Altai mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Himalayan mole with a weight of 60 grams
- Roman mole with a weight of 92 grams
- True’s shrew mole with a weight of 14 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Russian desman with a weight of 420 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sado mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mogera tokudae:
- Southern three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Red-crested tree-rat bringing 145 grams to the scale
- Tanezumi rat bringing 140 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Leadbeater’s possum bringing 137 grams to the scale
- Alpine pika bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Desert woodrat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Lowland streaked tenrec bringing 129 grams to the scale
- Laminate vlei rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sado mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sado mole:
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Striped treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Three-striped dasyure with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Plains pocket gopher with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Daurian pika with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Durango chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sado mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Sado mole: