How many baby Mexican voles are in a litter?
A Mexican vole (Microtus mexicanus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.8 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Microtus). An adult Mexican vole grows up to a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Mexican vole (Microtus mexicanus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae found in Mexico and the United States.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Mexican vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Southern big-eared mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Slender rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Shining thicket rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Small hocicudo weighting only 67 grams
- Wood lemming with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Red spiny rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pleasant bolo mouse weighting only 27 grams
- California vole with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mexican vole
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Lesser bilby
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Turbo shrew
- Pampas cat
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse
- Cape dune mole-rat
- Durango chipmunk
- Rock hyrax
- American badger
Animals with the same weight as a Mexican vole
What other animals weight around 34 grams (0.07 lbs)?
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse weighting 34 grams
- Molossops abrasus weighting 35 grams
- Common vampire bat weighting 33 grams
- Olive montane mouse weighting 37 grams
- Royle’s mountain vole weighting 37 grams
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat weighting 32 grams
- African giant shrew weighting 33 grams
- Spotted bolo mouse weighting 37 grams
- Small Luzon forest mouse weighting 35 grams
- Southern bog lemming weighting 28 grams
Animals with the same size as a Mexican vole
Also reaching around 11.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Painted spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western chestnut mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common rock rat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian slender opossum gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky slender opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Aztec mouse gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stirton’s deer mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern bog lemming gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)