It is hard to guess what a Prairie vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) on average weights 42 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Prairie vole is from the family Muridae (genus: Microtus). It is usually born with about 2 grams (0 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.2 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Prairie voles can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) is a small vole found in central North America.The vole has long, coarse grayish-brown fur on the upper portion of the body and yellowish fur on the lower portion of the body. It has short ears and a short tail, which is somewhat darker on top.
Animals of the same family as a Prairie vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Dusky hopping mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Oligoryzomys andinus with a weight of 25 grams
- Blue-gray mouse with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gambian pouched rat bringing 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) to the scale
- Guinea multimammate mouse with a weight of 64 grams
- African grass rat with a weight of 95 grams
- Anderson’s gerbil with a weight of 31 grams
- Fly River water rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Florida mouse with a weight of 30 grams
- Bibimys chacoensis with a weight of 28 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Prairie vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus ochrogaster:
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Brock’s yellow-eared bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Alexander’s bush squirrel bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Midas free-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- White-striped free-tailed bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Djoongari bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Star-nosed mole bringing 48 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Prairie vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Prairie vole:
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gunning’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gould’s mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pyrenean desman with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-footed vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Prairie vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Prairie vole: