How big does a Japanese mole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Japanese mole (Mogera wogura) reaches an average size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 3.5 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 82 grams (0.18 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Japanese moles have 3 babies about 1 times per year. The Japanese mole (genus: Mogera) is a member of the family Talpidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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
We found other animals of the Talpidae family:
- Pyrenean desman with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Balkan mole with a weight of 70 grams
- Himalayan mole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Large mole with a size of 14.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coast mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Blind mole with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- European mole with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kobe mole with 3 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Japanese mole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Japanese mole:
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bramble Cay melomys with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dibbler with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Roman mole with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Japanese mole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Japanese mole:
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa
- Bunny rat
- Desert hedgehog
- Southwestern water vole
- Ungava collared lemming
- Slender harvest mouse
- Fulvous harvest mouse
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa
- Cape golden mole
- Raccoon
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Japanese mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Japanese mole:
- Allen’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Field vole with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Southwestern water vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Raffray’s bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- New Guinean quoll with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lutrine opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Japanese mole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mogera wogura:
- Siberian chipmunk bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Big-eared kangaroo rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Bocage’s mole-rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Oecomys superans bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Tiny tuco-tuco bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Leschenault’s rousette bringing 84 grams to the scale
- Central American dwarf squirrel bringing 87 grams to the scale
- Abyssinian grass rat bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Northern rufous mouse lemur bringing 68 grams to the scale