It is hard to guess what a Small Japanese mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small Japanese mole (Mogera minor) on average weights 64 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Small 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 13.9 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Small 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 small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan. Even though they are extinct in central Tokyo, they are found in the grounds of the Imperial Palace.
Animals of the same family as a Small Japanese mole
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- European mole with a weight of 86 grams
- American shrew mole with a weight of 9 grams
- Hairy-tailed mole with a weight of 51 grams
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sado mole with a weight of 131 grams
- Small Japanese mole with a weight of 65 grams
- Himalayan mole with a weight of 60 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kobe mole with a weight of 95 grams
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Small Japanese mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mogera minor:
- Peters’s striped mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Angolan rousette bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Atherton antechinus bringing 76 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Spectacled dormouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Oxymycterus hucucha bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Angular hocicudo bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Soft-furred rat bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Marsh rice rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Small Japanese mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Small Japanese mole:
- White-bellied slender opossum with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Guam flying fox with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heath mouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cave nectar bat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Marsh rice rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Small Japanese mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Small Japanese mole:
- Snowshoe hare
- Black-footed ferret
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Gray fox
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse
- Anderson’s gerbil
- Western chestnut mouse
- Royle’s pika
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse
- Père David’s mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Small Japanese mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Small Japanese mole:
- Northern common cuscus with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Southwestern myotis with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Raffray’s bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- African pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Gray tree rat with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years