What is the maximal age a Japanese mountain mole reaches?
An adult Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) usually gets as old as 3 years.
Japanese mountain moles are around 40 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 4.43 meter (14′ 7″). As a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Euroscaptor), a Japanese mountain mole caries out around 3 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 9 cm (0′ 4″).
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 mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) is a species of mammal in the family Talpidae. It is endemic to Japan. Its natural habitats are temperate forests and temperate grassland. Although the Japanese mountain mole is currently classified in the genus Euroscaptor, a study published by the American Society of Mammalogists suggests that they do not truly belong to this genus because of earlier evolutionary divergence from other Euroscaptor species.In terms of the mole’s Morphology,recently the taxonomic position of the Japanese mountain mole (Euroscaptor mizura) was reassessed and this was based on its external and skeletal morphologies. It was found that the muzzle of the moles showed a unique groove on the ventral side of it and it separates it from the rest of the moles in the family. The study was conducted recently in 2016.[1][2]
Animals of the same family as a Japanese mountain mole
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Talpidae):
- Roman mole bringing the scale to 92 grams
- Spanish mole bringing the scale to 48 grams
- Chinese shrew mole bringing the scale to 16 grams
- Coast mole becoming 3 years old
- Balkan mole bringing the scale to 70 grams
- Altai mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern mole becoming 6.17 years old
- Kloss’s mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Small Japanese mole becoming 3.5 years old
- American shrew mole with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Japanese mountain mole
With an average age of 3 years, Japanese mountain mole are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Highland streaked tenrec usually reaching 2.58 years
- Etruscan shrew usually reaching 2.67 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus usually reaching 3 years
- Broad-footed mole usually reaching 3 years
- Eastern woodrat usually reaching 3 years
- Dibatag usually reaching 3 years
- Small Japanese mole usually reaching 3.5 years
- Silvery mole-rat usually reaching 3.08 years
- Sandstone false antechinus usually reaching 3 years
- Talas tuco-tuco usually reaching 3 years
Animals with the same number of babies Japanese mountain mole
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Yucatan squirrel
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel
- Crab-eating fox
- Heath mouse
- Darien harvest mouse
- Plains rat
- Prairie vole
- Singing vole
- Chinese bamboo rat
- North African hedgehog
Weighting as much as Japanese mountain mole
A fully grown Japanese mountain mole reaches around 25 grams (0.06 lbs). So do these animals:
- Eastern false pipistrelle with 22 grams
- Eva’s desert mouse with 21 grams
- Northern freetail bat with 20 grams
- European free-tailed bat with 28 grams
- Great Basin pocket mouse with 24 grams
- Yucatan deer mouse with 27 grams
- Mediterranean pine vole with 22 grams
- Grey dwarf hamster with 30 grams
- Railer bat with 22 grams
- Aztec fruit-eating bat with 20 grams
Animals as big as a Japanese mountain mole
Those animals grow as big as a Japanese mountain mole:
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cotton mouse with 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern three-striped opossum with 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat with 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut dunnart with 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Somali serotine with 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- African giant shrew with 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bailey’s pocket mouse with 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)