How big does a Common vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Common vole (Microtus arvalis) reaches an average size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 3 years, they grow from 1 grams (0 lbs) to 26 grams (0.06 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Common voles have 4 babies about 6 times per year. The Common 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 common vole (Microtus arvalis) is a European rodent.
Animals of the same family as a Common vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Euryoryzomys lamia with a weight of 60 grams
- Luzon striped rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat with 1 babies per litter
- Père David’s vole with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Florida mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Scolomys ucayalensis with a weight of 26 grams
- Sloggett’s vlei rat with 1 babies per litter
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse with a weight of 22 grams
- Capricorn leaf-eared mouse with a weight of 50 grams
- Wetzel’s climbing mouse with a weight of 89 grams
Animals with the same size as a Common vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common vole:
- Northern three-striped opossum with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Naked mole-rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Champion’s tree mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stein’s paramelomys with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malaita tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden spiny mouse with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Temminck’s flying squirrel with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Common vole:
- Sandstone false antechinus
- Visayan warty pig
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil
- San Joaquin pocket mouse
- Hairy-tailed mole
- Korean field mouse
- Senegal gerbil
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec
- El Carrizo deer mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common vole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common vole:
- Winter white dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Long-nosed echymipera with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Sminthopsis laniger with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Ooldea dunnart with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Coast mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Dibbler with an average maximal age of 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus arvalis:
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Juliana’s golden mole bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Barbary striped grass mouse bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Santa Cruz mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Gracile shrew tenrec bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Northern grasshopper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Least forest mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s gerbil bringing 31 grams to the scale