How many baby Sagebrush voles are in a litter?
A Sagebrush vole (Lemmiscus curtatus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 25 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Muridae family (genus: Lemmiscus). An adult Sagebrush vole grows up to a size of 10.3 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 sagebrush vole (Lemmiscus curtatus) is a tiny vole found in western North America. This is the only member of genus Lemmiscus.They are somewhat similar in appearance to lemmings. They have chunky bodies with short legs and a very short tail which is covered in fur and lighter below. They have fluffy dull grey fur with lighter underparts. They range from 11–14 cm in length with a tail length of around 1.8-2.7 cm and a mass of around 21-39 g.These animals are found in dry open brushy areas in the western United States and southern parts of western Canada. They feed on grasses and leaves in summer and sagebrush, bark and twigs in winter. Predators include owls, coyotes, bobcats and weasels.Female voles have 5 or more litters of 4 to 6 young in a year. The young are born in a nest in a burrow.They are active year-round, day and night, but are usually more active near sunrise and sunset. They make trails through the surface vegetation and also dig burrows with many entrances. They burrow under the snow in winter. These animals are often found in colonies.
Other animals of the family Muridae
Sagebrush vole is a member of the Muridae, as are these animals:
- Nelson’s woodrat weighting only 198 grams
- Grant’s rock mouse weighting only 40 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse weighting only 77 grams
- Steppe field mouse weighting only 20 grams
- Savanna gerbil with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Oxymycterus hucucha weighting only 67 grams
- Northern hopping mouse weighting only 38 grams
- Venezuelan climbing mouse weighting only 89 grams
- Soft grass mouse weighting only 30 grams
- Charming thicket rat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sagebrush vole
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Fat-tailed false antechinus
- American pygmy shrew
- Silent dormouse
- Oligoryzomys flavescens
- Wood lemming
- Vagrant shrew
- Cliff chipmunk
- Lowland streaked tenrec
- Algerian mouse
- Kowari
Animals with the same weight as a Sagebrush vole
What other animals weight around 28 grams (0.06 lbs)?
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat weighting 33 grams
- Grey dwarf hamster weighting 30 grams
- Aberdare mole shrew weighting 23 grams
- Geoxus valdivianus weighting 31 grams
- Philippine pygmy squirrel weighting 27 grams
- Crocidura grandiceps weighting 23 grams
- Sandstone false antechinus weighting 23 grams
- Stolička’s mountain vole weighting 30 grams
- Blanford’s fruit bat weighting 28 grams
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat weighting 25 grams
Animals with the same size as a Sagebrush vole
Also reaching around 10.3 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Juliana’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern three-striped opossum gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Feather-tailed possum gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse gets as big as 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- California kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Parantechinus bilarni gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cuban fruit-eating bat gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)