It is hard to guess what a Taiwan vole weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Taiwan vole (Microtus kikuchii) on average weights 46 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Taiwan vole is from the family Cricetidae (genus: Microtus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.3 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Taiwan voles have 1 babies per litter.
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 Taiwan vole (Microtus kikuchii) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found only in Taiwan.
Animals of the same family as a Taiwan vole
We found other animals of the Cricetidae family:
- Blackish grass mouse with a weight of 19 grams
- Juniper vole with 3 babies per litter
- Abrothrix longipilis with a weight of 38 grams
- Dark bolo mouse with a weight of 40 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus with a weight of 49 grams
- Sooretamys with a weight of 120 grams
- Blyth’s vole with 1 babies per litter
- Abrothrix lanosus with a weight of 27 grams
- Pleasant bolo mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Bank vole with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Taiwan vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus kikuchii:
- White-throated grass mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Mozambique thicket rat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Cerradomys subflavus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Djoongari bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Shortridge’s multimammate mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Typical striped grass mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed gerbil bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Woodland thicket rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Cursor grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Taiwan vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Taiwan vole:
- Rufous mouse opossum with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mitchell’s hopping mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Alexander’s bush squirrel with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Asian garden dormouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao shrew-rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Transandinomys bolivaris with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Taiwan vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Taiwan vole: