How big does a Bavarian pine vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Bavarian pine vole (Microtus bavaricus) reaches an average size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). The Bavarian pine 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 Bavarian pine vole (Microtus bavaricus) is a vole from the Austrian, Italian, and Bavarian Alps of Europe. It lives in moist meadows at elevations of 600 to 1,000 meters. There are 23 museum specimens of this species.This rodent was previously known to live in only one location, Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, which was altered by the construction of a hospital in the 1980s. No specimens of this rodent were recorded after 1962 and it was thought to be extinct. However, a population apparently belonging to this species was discovered in 2000 in Northern Tyrol, just across the German-Austrian border. An Austrian scientist, Friederike Spitzenberger, stumbled upon the species in a live trap. Its species status was confirmed by genetic studies, and it was found to be very closely related to Liechtenstein’s vole (Microtus liechtensteini) from the Eastern Alps. Further research is required to determine the size and range of the population and the species has been re-assessed as Critically Endangered by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Bavarian pine vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Oecomys phaeotis with a weight of 73 grams
- Nicaraguan harvest mouse with a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Masked white-tailed rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Robert’s snow vole with 1 babies per litter
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Ryukyu mouse with a weight of 14 grams
- Long-tailed mouse with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Japen rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same size as a Bavarian pine vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bavarian pine vole:
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bastard big-footed mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Transcaucasian water shrew with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Least forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern groove-toothed shrew mouse with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)