How big does a Mexican vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mexican vole (Microtus mexicanus) reaches an average size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 34 grams (0.07 lbs). A Mexican vole has 2 babies at once. The Mexican vole (genus: Microtus) is a member of the family Muridae.
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 Mexican vole (Microtus mexicanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Mexico and the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Mexican vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Junín grass mouse with a weight of 39 grams
- Lesser bamboo rat with 2 babies per litter
- Percival’s spiny mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Kemp’s gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Montane Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Summit rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Spotted bolo mouse with a weight of 37 grams
- Target rat with 2 babies per litter
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat with 4 babies per litter
- Oecomys bicolor with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Mexican vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mexican vole:
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western red-backed vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Golden mouse with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western chestnut mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mexican vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Mexican vole:
- Crested porcupine
- Brown deer mouse
- Southern pygmy mouse
- Southern brown bandicoot
- Chacoan peccary
- Cairo spiny mouse
- Target rat
- Eurasian lynx
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Ruddy mongoose
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus mexicanus:
- Black mastiff bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Alpine chipmunk bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Junín grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Greater red musk shrew bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s bonneted bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Dryad shrew tenrec bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Sagebrush vole bringing 28 grams to the scale