How big does a California vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown California vole (Microtus californicus) reaches an average size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 57 grams (0.13 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 3 grams (0.01 lbs). Talking about reproduction, California voles have 4 babies about 5 times per year. The California 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 California vole (Microtus californicus) is a type of vole which lives throughout much of California and part of southwestern Oregon. It is also known as the California meadow mouse. It averages 172 mm (6.8 in) in length although this length varies greatly between subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a California vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Brown rat with 8 babies per litter
- King rat (animal) with a size of 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Great gerbil with 4 babies per litter
- Maned rat with 1 babies per litter
- Mountain spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Allen’s wood mouse with 3 babies per litter
- Cabrera’s vole with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same size as a California vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as California vole:
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican mouse opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Jentink’s flying squirrel with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Arends’s golden mole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern collared lemming with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a California vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a California vole:
- Northern bog lemming
- Eastern heather vole
- Japanese dormouse
- Beach vole
- Fawn-colored mouse
- Pygmy gerbil
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Giant forest hog
- Southern African hedgehog
- Northern pocket gopher
Animals with the same weight as a California vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus californicus:
- Arends’s golden mole bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Buffy broad-nosed bat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Ruschi’s rat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Flat-faced fruit-eating bat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Cape short-eared gerbil bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Aratathomas’s yellow-shouldered bat bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Horsfield’s fruit bat bringing 55 grams to the scale