How big does a Woodland vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum) reaches an average size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 2.75 years, they grow from 2 grams (0 lbs) to 26 grams (0.06 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Woodland voles have 2 babies about 2 times per year. The Woodland 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 woodland vole (Microtus pinetorum) is a small vole found in eastern North America. It is also known as the pine vole.
Animals of the same family as a Woodland vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Libyan jird with 4 babies per litter
- Southern climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
- Japanese grass vole with 4 babies per litter
- Somali pygmy gerbil with a size of 6.8 cm (0′ 3″)
- El Carrizo deer mouse with 4 babies per litter
- Bismarck giant rat with a weight of 612 grams
- Chiapan deer mouse with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cutch rat with 5 babies per litter
- Long-tailed mountain rat with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Oecomys flavicans with a weight of 73 grams
Animals with the same size as a Woodland vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woodland vole:
- Juliana’s golden mole with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Shrew gymnure with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Florida mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern three-striped opossum with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woodland vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Woodland vole:
- Cape ground squirrel
- Rüppell’s fox
- Spiny pocket mouse
- Bornean ferret-badger
- Durango chipmunk
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Marsh rabbit
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
- Nyctophilus corbeni
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woodland vole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woodland vole:
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- North African elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lutrine opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Sminthopsis laniger with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Common vole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Eastern woodrat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Monito del monte with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Woodland vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus pinetorum:
- Alpine pine vole bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Southern bog lemming bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Akodon albiventer bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Least pygmy squirrel bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Yellow-necked mouse bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Cheesman’s gerbil bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Akodon boliviensis bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Bolivian vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale