How many baby Long-tailed voles are in a litter?
A Long-tailed vole (Microtus longicaudus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.8 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Microtus). An adult Long-tailed vole grows up to a size of 11.9 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 long-tailed vole (Microtus longicaudus), in some areas known as the San Bernardino long-tailed vole, is a small vole found in western North America. They have short ears and a long tail. Their fur is gray brown with light gray underparts. They are around 18 cm (7.1 in) long with an 8 cm (3.1 in) tail and weigh about 50 g (1.8 oz).
Other animals of the family Muridae
Long-tailed vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Hastings River mouse weighting only 95 grams
- Northern mole vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Central rock rat weighting only 100 grams
- Kemp’s grass mouse weighting only 26 grams
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat weighting only 186 grams
- Buffoon striped grass mouse weighting only 26 grams
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Blanford’s rat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Insular vole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-tailed vole
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Olive grass mouse
- Wood lemming
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Northern grass mouse
- Silent dormouse
- Kowari
- European rabbit
- Large vesper mouse
- Alpine shrew
- Siberian chipmunk
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed vole
What other animals weight around 44 grams (0.1 lbs)?
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat weighting 46 grams
- Chibchan water mouse weighting 50 grams
- Star-nosed mole weighting 48 grams
- Nikolaus’s mouse weighting 52 grams
- Gould’s mouse weighting 49 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat weighting 50 grams
- Black-eared mouse weighting 39 grams
- Abrothrix illuteus weighting 47 grams
- South African pouched mouse weighting 50 grams
- Cuban fruit-eating bat weighting 37 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed vole
Also reaching around 11.9 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Pink fairy armadillo gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan water shrew gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao mountain rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sonoma chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern hopping mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Flat-headed vole gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater spear-nosed bat gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cave nectar bat gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)