How many baby Common voles are in a litter?
A Common vole (Microtus arvalis) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 6 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 24 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. 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 Common vole grows up to a size of 11.4 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 common vole (Microtus arvalis) is a European rodent.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Common vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Montane vole with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Koford’s grass mouse weighting only 29 grams
- Slender harvest mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blue-gray mouse raching a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s vole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rosalinda’s Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Canyon mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bismarck giant rat weighting only 613 grams
- Ryukyu spiny rat weighting only 84 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Common vole
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse
- Gray-tailed vole
- Talas tuco-tuco
- Camas pocket gopher
- Long-tailed dunnart
- Indian desert jird
- Dsinezumi shrew
- Pygmy spotted skunk
Animals that get as old as a Common vole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Dibatag with 3 years
- Bicolored shrew with 3 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with 3 years
- Acacia rat with 3.5 years
- Alpine pika with 3 years
- Typical striped grass mouse with 2.5 years
- Four-striped grass mouse with 2.83 years
- Southern bog lemming with 2.5 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 3.5 years
- Eurasian water shrew with 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common vole
What other animals weight around 26 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Carpentarian dunnart weighting 25 grams
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat weighting 25 grams
- Ash-grey mouse weighting 30 grams
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat weighting 25 grams
- Sandstone false antechinus weighting 23 grams
- Bailey’s pocket mouse weighting 27 grams
- Salvin’s big-eyed bat weighting 26 grams
- Wood lemming weighting 30 grams
- Southern bog lemming weighting 28 grams
- Mauritian tomb bat weighting 27 grams
Animals with the same size as a Common vole
Also reaching around 11.4 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Mozambique thicket rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Shrew gymnure gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fresno kangaroo rat gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Swift fruit bat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser tree mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray slender opossum gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Temminck’s striped mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prairie vole gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed pygmy possum gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)