How big does a Small Japanese mole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Small Japanese mole (Mogera minor) reaches an average size of 13.9 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 64 grams (0.14 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Small Japanese moles have 3 babies about 1 times per year. The Small 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 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:
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Altai mole with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kobe mole with 3 babies per litter
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japanese mole with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-footed mole with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- True’s shrew mole with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Coast mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
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:
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cerradomys subflavus with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rough-haired golden mole with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Phillips’s gerbil with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hairy-tailed mole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a size of 11.6 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:
- Raccoon
- Brush rabbit
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Snowshoe hare
- Gray fox
- Savanna path shrew
- Abrothrix longipilis
- American hog-nosed skunk
- Geoxus valdivianus
- Japanese shrew mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Small Japanese mole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Small Japanese mole:
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Aders’s duiker with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Bicolored shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Giant golden mole with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Dibbler with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lesser bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 3.67 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
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:
- Aegialomys galapagoensis bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Southern marsupial mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Robinson’s mouse opossum bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Glacier rat bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Andean mouse bringing 69 grams to the scale