It is hard to guess what a Northern red-backed vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys rutilus) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Northern red-backed vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Clethrionomys). It is usually born with about 1 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.9 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Northern red-backed voles can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 northern red-backed vole (Myodes rutilus) is a small slender vole found in Alaska, northern Canada, Scandinavia and northern Russia.
Animals of the same family as a Northern red-backed vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Turkestan rat with 4 babies per litter
- Chelemys macronyx with a weight of 72 grams
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with a weight of 106 grams
- Musso’s fish-eating rat with a weight of 40 grams
- Michoacan deer mouse with a weight of 49 grams
- Black-tailed mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Southwestern water vole with a weight of 220 grams
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a weight of 80 grams
- Mountain giant Sunda rat with a weight of 419 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern red-backed vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Clethrionomys rutilus:
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Davies’s big-eared bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- One-toothed shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Gerbil mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Russet free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Friendly leaf-eared mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Gerbil leaf-eared mouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed pocket mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Halcyon horseshoe bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern red-backed vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern red-backed vole:
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western rock elephant shrew with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Selangor pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Great fruit-eating bat with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Singing vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Meadow vole with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern red-backed vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Northern red-backed vole: