How big does a Creeping vole get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Creeping vole (Microtus oregoni) reaches an average size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 1.25 years, they grow from 1 grams (0 lbs) to 20 grams (0.04 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Creeping voles have 3 babies about 4 times per year. The Creeping 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 creeping vole (Microtus oregoni), sometimes known as the Oregon meadow mouse, is a small rodent in the family Cricetidae. Ranging across the Pacific Northwest of North America, it is found in forests, grasslands, woodlands, and chaparral environments. The small-tailed, furry, brownish-gray mammal was first described in the scientific literature in 1839, from a specimen collected near the mouth of the Columbia River. The smallest vole in its range, it weighs around 19 g (0.67 oz). At birth, they weigh 1.6 g (0.056 oz), are naked, pink, unable to open their eyes, and the ear flaps completely cover the ear openings. Although not always common throughout their range, there are no major concerns for their survival as a species.
Animals of the same family as a Creeping vole
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Gorongoza gerbil with a weight of 119 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse with a weight of 77 grams
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse with a weight of 170 grams
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan field rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Western harvest mouse with a size of 6.9 cm (0′ 3″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- South African pouched mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a Creeping vole
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Creeping vole:
- Père David’s vole with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sandstone false antechinus with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Woodland thicket rat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed potoroo with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common rock rat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rudd’s mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Creeping vole
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Creeping vole:
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Prairie vole
- Savanna gerbil
- Deroo’s mouse
- Silky pocket mouse
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Northern mole vole
- Crab-eating fox
- Swamp musk shrew
- Nimba otter shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Creeping vole
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Creeping vole:
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Western harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Ornate shrew with an average maximal age of 1.42 years
- Myosorex varius with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Olive grass mouse with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Townsend’s mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Smoky shrew with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Creeping vole
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microtus oregoni:
- Tschudi’s yellow-shouldered bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Hairy big-eyed bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser mouse-eared bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Andean vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Eloquent horseshoe bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale