What is the maximal age a Arctic lemming reaches?
An adult Arctic lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus) usually gets as old as 3.75 years.
Arctic lemmings are around 17 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 91.1 cm (3′ 0″). As a member of the Muridae family (genus: Dicrostonyx), a Arctic lemming caries out around 3 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 2 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 2.85 meter (9′ 5″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Arctic lemming (Dicrostonyx torquatus) is a species of rodents in the family Cricetidae.Although generally classified as a “least concern” species, the Novaya Zemlya subspecies (Dicrostonyx torquatus ungulatus) is considered a vulnerable species under Russian nature conservation legislation (included in Red Book of Russian Federation since 1998).
Animals of the same family as a Arctic lemming
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Muridae):
- Savile’s bandicoot rat bringing the scale to 260 grams
- Boehm’s gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mozambique thicket rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Olive montane mouse bringing the scale to 37 grams
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing the scale to 34 grams
- King rat (animal) bringing the scale to 420 grams
- Mamore arboreal rice rat bringing the scale to 62 grams
- White-footed climbing mouse bringing the scale to 40 grams
- Vinogradov’s jird becoming 3.33 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Arctic lemming
With an average age of 3.75 years, Arctic lemming are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Little long-tailed dunnart usually reaching 3.17 years
- Euphrates jerboa usually reaching 4.17 years
- Yellow-necked mouse usually reaching 4 years
- Siberian flying squirrel usually reaching 3.75 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum usually reaching 4 years
- Steppe pika usually reaching 4 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus usually reaching 3.5 years
- Pallas’s pika usually reaching 4 years
- Ooldea dunnart usually reaching 3 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew usually reaching 4 years
Animals with the same number of babies Arctic lemming
The same number of babies at once (3) are born by:
- Allen’s squirrel
- Forest dormouse
- Molina’s grass mouse
- Yellow-throated marten
- Brown palm civet
- Mesquite mouse
- Eastern pygmy possum
- Ochre mole-rat
- Beech marten
- Red-nosed mouse
Weighting as much as Arctic lemming
A fully grown Arctic lemming reaches around 78 grams (0.17 lbs). So do these animals:
- Chelemys macronyx with 72 grams
- Jaliscan spiny pocket mouse with 65 grams
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with 82 grams
- Soft-furred rat with 67 grams
- Merriam’s chipmunk with 74 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with 85 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with 78 grams
- Kaiser’s rock rat with 90 grams
- Kalinowski’s Oldfield mouse with 77 grams
- Bougainville mosaic-tailed rat with 86 grams