It is hard to guess what a Small Japanese mole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Small Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii) on average weights 65 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 14 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:
- Star-nosed mole with a weight of 48 grams
- Kloss’s mole with 4 babies per litter
- Japanese shrew mole with a weight of 18 grams
- American shrew mole with a weight of 9 grams
- Small Japanese mole with a weight of 64 grams
- Spanish mole with a weight of 48 grams
- True’s shrew mole with a weight of 15 grams
- Japanese mole with a weight of 82 grams
- Himalayan mole with a weight of 60 grams
- Roman mole with a weight of 92 grams
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 imaizumii:
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Feather-tailed possum bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys yunganus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Hainan gymnure bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Abyssinian grass rat bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Coast mole bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Pale-faced bat bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Nikolaus’s mouse bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Mamore arboreal rice rat bringing 62 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:
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater tree mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Roman mole with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smoky mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Biak glider with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Australian swamp rat with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Uinta chipmunk with a size of 12.3 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:
- Western mouse
- Long-nosed dasyure
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
- Shipton’s mountain cavy
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Damaraland mole-rat
- White-tailed rat
- Brush mouse
- Ochre mole-rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Small Japanese mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Small Japanese mole:
- African wading rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Gray tree rat with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Smith’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Lesser bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 3.67 years
- Broad-footed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Monito del monte with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 4 years