How many baby Flat-headed voles are in a litter?
A Flat-headed vole (Alticola strelzowi) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 12 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 20 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Alticola). An adult Flat-headed vole grows up to a size of 11.7 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 flat-headed vole (Alticola strelzowi) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.It is found in China, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russian Federation.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Flat-headed vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Pale leaf-eared mouse weighting only 102 grams
- Mexican water mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Amazonian marsh rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- White-tailed rat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser stick-nest rat weighting only 150 grams
- Desert mouse with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian striped mouse weighting only 18 grams
- Bogotá grass mouse weighting only 13 grams
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Muskrat with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Flat-headed vole
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Brown antechinus
- Eurasian water shrew
- Dwarf shrew
- South African pouched mouse
- Günther’s vole
- Arctic ground squirrel
- Chinese striped hamster
- Mohave ground squirrel
- Siberian weasel
- Seven-banded armadillo
Animals with the same weight as a Flat-headed vole
What other animals weight around 50 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Greater bulldog bat weighting 45 grams
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse weighting 55 grams
- Nephelomys levipes weighting 60 grams
- Chiruromys lamia weighting 47 grams
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat weighting 47 grams
- Ivory Coast rat weighting 52 grams
- Peters’s striped mouse weighting 54 grams
- Zygodontomys brevicauda weighting 52 grams
- Plateau mouse weighting 40 grams
- Little collared fruit bat weighting 44 grams
Animals with the same size as a Flat-headed vole
Also reaching around 11.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Mount Apo forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- South African pouched mouse gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pocock’s highland rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pearson’s chaco mouse gets as big as 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Large tree mouse gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan shrew gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Typical striped grass mouse gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red tree vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)