What is the maximal age a Japanese mole reaches?
An adult Japanese mole (Mogera wogura) usually gets as old as 3.5 years.
Japanese moles are around 40 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 39.45 kg (86.96 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Mogera), a Japanese mole caries out around 3 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
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
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Talpidae):
- Echigo mole bringing the scale to 163 grams
- Spanish mole bringing the scale to 48 grams
- True’s shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-footed mole becoming 3 years old
- Balkan mole bringing the scale to 70 grams
- Blind mole bringing the scale to 70 grams
- Père David’s mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese mountain mole becoming 3 years old
- Gansu mole getting as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy-tailed mole becoming 5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Japanese mole
With an average age of 3.5 years, Japanese mole are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Black rat usually reaching 4.17 years
- Northern birch mouse usually reaching 4 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus usually reaching 3.75 years
- Southwestern water vole usually reaching 3.5 years
- Common planigale usually reaching 4 years
- Northern pocket gopher usually reaching 3.75 years
- Broad-footed mole usually reaching 3 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus usually reaching 3.5 years
- Northern pygmy mouse usually reaching 3.25 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat usually reaching 3.08 years
Animals with the same number of babies Japanese mole
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Derby’s woolly opossum
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa
- Water opossum
- Mesquite mouse
- Volcano harvest mouse
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Jentink’s dormouse
- Thylacine
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa
Weighting as much as Japanese mole
A fully grown Japanese mole reaches around 82 grams (0.18 lbs). So do these animals:
- Arnhem Land rock rat with 94 grams
- Ansell’s mole-rat with 85 grams
- Southern big-eared mouse with 70 grams
- Chelemys macronyx with 72 grams
- Malayan mountain spiny rat with 90 grams
- Norway lemming with 67 grams
- Fringe-tailed gerbil with 95 grams
- Taiga vole with 92 grams
- Stolzmann’s crab-eating rat with 84 grams
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 79 grams
Animals as big as a Japanese mole
Those animals grow as big as a Japanese mole:
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Low’s squirrel with 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- New Caledonia flying fox with 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pseudoryzomys with 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Banks flying fox with 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Desert kangaroo rat with 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Southern African vlei rat with 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with 12 cm (0′ 5″)